Re: XP Peformance

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Reinstall? repair install?

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3ghz, 360gb HD, 1gb DDR.
"Art" <Art@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Looks like my print spooler is misbehaving ... hogging 48% of system
> rescoures. I closed it and recaptured resources.... unfortunately it
> raised
> its ugly head again. Trying to track down cause.
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> -Art
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> "doodle" wrote:
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>> What about other maintenance jobs, is your system clean of
>> spyware/adware/viruses? Have you done a cleanup lately? Analyze the
>> frag levels and see if it needs to be defragged. File access can crawl
>> to a slow if ur drive is badly fragmented.
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>> Art Wrote:
>> > Task mgr is reporting 50% CPU utilization while computer is idle!! .
>> > Is
>> > this
>> > normal? Never looked until lately. My computer is a P4 3.2 mhz with
>> > 2 gig
>> > ram and two 10,000 rpm SATA hard drives. Opening up any file wil take
>> > CPU
>> > utilization easily up to 80 to 100%. Computer is noticebly slower...
>> > not
>> > sure if from BIOS upgrade (ASUS) or me messing with Performance
>> > settings.
>> > Right now, I have everything set to Windows optimize my memory.
>> >
>> > Your input on what to check is appreciated
>> > -Art
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>> doodle
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