xp uses 100% cpu

[TheMysterio]

hi
i have xp pro which is taking 100% cpu all the time i have sp1 installed. couldnt find why it takes 100% of the CPU. i have 256 MB Ram and P4 1.7 Ghz. can anyone tell me why it uses 100%

thanks
TheMysterio

[Bads]

Did you check in the task manager ? Just it ctrl-alt-del and you will see wich program takes the cpu ressource

[fares]

i can not tell you why it is taking %100 of your cpu ,niether any one in the forum ,the only one who could determine your problem is yourself since you are the one who has a physical access to the pc,lpen your device manager and show all process from all users,look what is taking too much use and try to look for it if it is a system process than you have a problemin your system,if it is a program try to see why it behave this way.
good luck.try to determine when did that started to happen ,what did you install lately.

[fares]

hay add did we post togather lol.

[TheMysterio]

anyway thanks for the info mate. i will check that

Regards
Themysterio

[sigmazeta314]

I had a similar problem just recently at work with Win 2000 Pro. It began just after I downloaded and installed the cumulative patches supplied via windows update. The application taking up all the resources was svchost.exe, not to be confused with scvhost.exe, which is a virus. I found this out by simply opening the task manager and looking at the processes running (as has been suggested in previous posts). Once I uninstalled the "hotfixes" (as M$ calls them) the problem corrected itself and saved me a big headace of reinstalling windows...which is another option. I don't know if this same issue applies to win XP, but if you have recently installed any updates, other then SP1, I would look carefuly at this possibility.

Hope this helps.

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Sigma Zeta 314

[Stringent]

If you have ZoneAlarm installed I have had problems with that hogging all the resources. Uninstall it, delete its folder/files and install it again.

[TheMysterio]

actually i've installed these 2 hot fixes
Q811630_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU
Q331958_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU

before installing these i didnt notice the CPU usage..perhaps i can unsintall and see

Thanks

TheMysterio

I dont have Zone Alarm installed

[TheMysterio]

i actually found in task manager the i/o read and i/o write numbers to be somwhere around 250000000(approx)
i dont know what this i/o read write means
any one can help me on this?

[TheMysterio]

i finally found out why my CPu usage is 100% always. The culprit is "RSCMPT.exe" this one loads in th estartup adnd this is taking all the CPU. i've disabled it now

any idea what is the use for this EXE
Thanks
TheMysterio