cant_ride Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 hey hey my computer was being an arse and running slow as a crow so i checked out the process tree and it came up with 100% CPU time utilisation..... i got a program called true sword which took about 3 hours to get rid of the problem but when i restarted my pc the next day the problem was backnow every day its the same anyone know exactly why this happens so i can get it to f**k off?and please dont say 'you've probably got spyware' because i think thats pretty obviouscheersoli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 start>run>type in: msconfig. check the two last tabs for this program and unselect it if you find it. then restart. it should help.and if you want to run a spyware check i suggest using a program called "spybot - search and destroy". it's free and you can download it here:http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffacakes Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 That program is awesome. I got it a few months back and its better than norton antivirus (crap) which i payed about £40 for . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Street Lee Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and click the "Processes" tab, you can see the CPU useage for each individual process there. Once you've found the program you can go about sorting the problem. May be of help, maybe not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cant_ride Posted February 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 thanks so far but ive done everything already... i know that the crapper is somewhere within explore.exe and is a different program every time i have to remove it.spyware removal programs dont do anything.oli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmt_oli Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 I had a 100% processor problem on my new computer when i built it, it was something to do with a particular process which wasnt a piece of spyware, but a windows process, so everytime you stopped it, it started agian, and if you deleted it off the HD it regenerated on system restart, i had to go into the registry and disable the function. I believe it was something to do with interenet proxys and so on, i can't remember. It hasnt affected my interenet so far though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 can you make a list of a few of the names the program has in the task manager process tree, googling them may well give you more clues as to how to get rid of it.Out of interest, are you running any anti-virus software and/or a firewall? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cant_ride Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 yeh i run McAfee and spybot/spysweeperi disabled a few registry functions as a first step... didnt work ... googled all the bad programs running and killed them ... didnt work.... got truesword.... worked but reappears every time i restart the pc.oli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexx Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 Try a system restore to a few months back ? Thast the kind of problem I just give up on and format Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted February 12, 2006 Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 I have heard that people can fix this sort of problem using a program called HiJack This. It basically stops programs loading, I think. I've never used it though, I dunno how you people get into such troubles Anyway, T3h Linkeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cant_ride Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 I have heard that people can fix this sort of problem using a program called HiJack This. It basically stops programs loading, I think. I've never used it though, I dunno how you people get into such troubles Anyway, T3h Linkeh charz matey ill have a look. I have no idea how this happened.. i dont look at porn or go on any other dodgy sites with this computer.. one day i loaded proEngineer2 macromedia studio mx and 3ds max and the next day there were problems... but its not those programs.. maybe something that downloaded to one of them?oli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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