100% CPU usage at idle?

[SlaiN]

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!!!

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

[Stringent]

Do you have a firewall such as ZoneAlarm?

[SlaiN]

Hey Flanderz,

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

Any ideas?

[~*McoreD*~]

Welcome to BetaONE, SlaiN, my friend.
Sorry about I couldn't help you in this but our BetaONE family will do!

Hope you will be sharing and gathering knowledge here better than we did in MSN.

[Stringent]

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.

[SlaiN]

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.

[SlaiN]

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

[Cactus]

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

[SlaiN]

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.

[DoG]

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