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"100% CPU Usage?!"

About 18 months ago my computer got a virus (kwbot.e worm i think) and it erased my hard drive so I took to get fixed. He restored most of the files and installed pc-cillin 2000 anti virus but now the CPU usage is always on 100%. Does anyone know why this might be happening?

When no programs are running there's about 40 processes running, Memory usage is 118844k of 550008k.
I have a 1.3 Ghz AMD athlon 1400 (i think) processor running on a Hi-Grade Winputer.

Can anyone help, it's getting really annoying now because I can only run one program at a time properly and playing even games like GTA3 is impossisible.

Even with about 5 applications running i'm using less than 1% of my CPU, other that find-a-drug which takes up as much as it can until something else needs some CPU

Editing start-up programs can be accessed from the services menu. Just Run services.msc

Thanks.

the_Xecutioner wrote:
> My friend said to use MSCONFIG but when I try it says 'cannot find the
> file 'MSCONFIG' (or one of it's components)'

It's included with windows 98, but might not be with your os - so download it here:
[URL]http://www.techadvice.com/specs/files_dl.asp?fnid=3398288[/URL]

My friend said to use MSCONFIG but when I try it says 'cannot find the file 'MSCONFIG' (or one of it's components)'

I need to bind "What operating system are you running?" to a key somewhere.

be§§ant™ wrote:

> LORD IS HERE REJOICE!!
>
> taka-Q i have been searching for that word that one keyword
> "MSCONFIG" for about nearly a year now.


I aim to please.

taka-Q wrote:
> 40 is a bit excessive, I have about 22-25 when nothing is running, all
> of which take less than a % of the processing power (bear in mind
> that that is 1% of 4% that my CPU usage is when idle), all the rest
> is taken by the System Idle (99%).
>
> Try useing msconfig (in the run box) to limit the processes that the
> computer starts up with (the startup tab - all of them are not
> required, but you will want some of the eg the antvirus software).




LORD IS HERE REJOICE!!

taka-Q i have been searching for that word that one keyword "MSCONFIG" for about nearly a year now. i have 34 unwanted processes on my startup and you have helped ELIMINATE them. i have forgotten that word for a year and you casually add it at the end of a post

WAHOOOO!!

PS: my cpu usage is around 5% with no programs running....

40 is a bit excessive, I have about 22-25 when nothing is running, all of which take less than a % of the processing power (bear in mind that that is 1% of 4% that my CPU usage is when idle), all the rest is taken by the System Idle (99%).

Try useing msconfig (in the run box) to limit the processes that the computer starts up with (the startup tab - all of them are not required, but you will want some of the eg the antvirus software).

My anti virus software is updated almost daily and I check for both spyware and viruses every week. I'll try updating Ad Aware.
Thanks.