HELP before my computer fries

[Flt. Sgt. Powderhound]

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.

Thanks for that program- I've been trying to get rid of some more persistent auto-runs for ages. :)