HELP before my computer fries

[reynolddog]

Ahh, Just idling along and its at 100% cpu when im just looking at the comcast home webpage. Could it be vista and only having 896mb (Intergrated is sucking up ram)? I have a AMD 5000+ X2. 77-78 processes running. PLEASE HELP!



Edit: its been being weird lately, just today though its running 100% at idle.

8 viewing this forum yet no answer???? COME ON.

[Predators28]

Bloody hell you have 77-78 processes running shouldn't be that many, On my pc I only 47 processes running and at Idle it's only using 0-2%cpu.

What are your pc spec's?

[reynolddog]

71 now.. AMD 5000+ X2 1 gig ram Vista home premium 32 bit. intergrated graphics (Crappy) 6150se. Anything else you need to do? Also i don't know what proccesses should and shouldn't be running.

[Predators28]

I assume that it's a laptop, if so another gig or 2 of ram would really help. Have you scanned for spyware, viruses and defraged your hdd?

[reynolddog]

I assume that it's a laptop, if so another gig or 2 of ram would really help. Have you scanned for spyware, viruses and defraged your hdd?

No it's not laptop. LOL. Im getting 8800GT 650W psu and 2 gigs soon. Im doing defrag Now.. umm quick questin http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231018 That looks like pretty AWSOME deal. But my mobo is DIMM whats the diffrence? heres my crap mobo http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=3378346

[CaptainKirk]

Run a spyware sweep. Use the one that comes with Vista.

[reynolddog]

I can only find "Scan"

[CaptainKirk]

It's called Windows Defender.

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WOW 71-77 processes!!!

I have 20-22 thats counting the PnkBstrA and PnkBstrB thats start up with my rig(s).

[reynolddog]

Ugh i don't know what proccesses i need and dont need though... please help...

[looqas]

Load http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys.../AutoRuns.mspx

Under "logon" tab you'll see everything that the windows starts up when you are booting. Uncheck all the crap like adobe acrobat, real player, quick time etc. you don't need them so stop them eating your memory and prolonging the booting time.

Under "services" tab there are more deeply embedded stuff that starts up also when booting like virus protections, sw firewall etc.

Go through both lists and uncheck all you don't need. There might also be a suspicious program. use google to find out about the service/program if you are unsure what it is.

Reboot.

then CTRL-ALT-DEL and go task manager and there processes tab. Click CPU header and you'll sort the list to see which process uses the most CPU at the moment. There'll you find you bad guy. If it's constantly the svchost.exe which uses the 100% then you'll most probably have a virus/trojan/malware/spyware which has disguised itself as a windows service.

And use google to find out about the processes. Just type in the name of the process like I have lcfd.exe here http://www.google.fi/search?hl=fi&q=lcdf.exe&meta=
and you'll find out about the process and is it good or bad or needed.

[Vreki]

Ugh i don't know what proccesses i need and dont need though... please help...

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[reynolddog]

I have Mcaffe Vreki, but ill try AVAST. Also Looqas thanks.

[Rambo]

Vista runs background tasks also like defrag when its needed

I got 58 with heaps on my hardrive

[=98=]

I'm using Avast, and i have had only one problem in the last 4 years.