Hey ppl,

My PC is using windowsXP, and sometimes when it is at idle, with no extra programs running, my HDD led light flashes every 2 seconds, and my CPU usage shows to be 100%. This all happens when the computer is doing nothing!!! :huh:

It also slows down the performance of my PC. This problem doesnt happen always, but when it does, its very annoying! I have ran Anti-virus software, and trojan removers, and they all have found nothing. Anybody know what this could be? And how to solve it? Any information would be appreciated.

Later ppl

Do you have a firewall such as ZoneAlarm?

Hey Flanderz,

i got McAfee personal firewall, but this problem was happening even when i didnt have this installed.

Any ideas?

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OK what else do you have running at startup? Look at icons by your clock (bottom right), do Alt-Crtl-Del and see what is taking up your 100% CPU usage.

I said ZoneAlarm because I have had problems with it hogging CPU usage.

Also download this:

http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~s...spybotsd12.exe

and run it.

Hi Flanderz,

Thanks for your concern. On the bottom this is whats running:
MSN
Bandwidth Monitor
MemTurbo
McAfee Virus Scan
McAfee Firewall

Please remember that this doesnt happen always.

Sorry, thanks for the link! i already have this useful app, and it hasnt solved this problem either

What process is consuming all this performance? I didn't figure that out from the info you gave... ;)

Hi Cactus,

During a session, when its happening, i went into the windows task manager and then processes, and this is what it said:
taskmgr.exe 37
update.exe 32
taskmgr.exe 31

I have no idea why there are 2 taskmgr.exe, but they seem to be using most of my CPU.

And whatever is auto updating could be causing a lot of disk activity. Try disabling taskmgr and see if that helps