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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Getback on November 05, 2011, 03:03:22 PM
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I posted this in the technical help section but no replies. So far I've deleted the AV and turned off Automatic updates. No good. Still over 50%. Then I went through my programs and deleted several programs that were not, let's say my idea. Things like ask.com toolbar and Support.com toolbar. No good either. I keep seeing stuff about windows media player being in the wrong location. However according to that post I'm good.
Any suggestions to lower the usage?
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a little antsy aint ya? i just replied to your other post. is that cpu usage after a fresh boot? if you had toolbars installed, you might have some spyware process running.
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a little antsy aint ya? i just replied to your other post. is that cpu usage after a fresh boot? if you had toolbars installed, you might have some spyware process running.
LOL, yep a little ancy. I got it fixed.
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so how did you fix it?
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so how did you fix it?
First I deleted the AV. Then I turned off auto updates. That didn't do the trick. In fact it seemed a bit worse. Then I opened MSconfig and took all the junk out of startup like iTunes, AMD Control Center, etc. That lowered everything. After that I delted every tool bar on my system except the Google Tool bar. Be wary of anything you down load wether you say download it or not it may down load the tool bar. Those tool bars like Ask.com, support.com, and Google. Everything seemed fine until I went back on the internet. Then the system slowed to a crawl. Not just AH but the entire system. So I went back and deleted the google tool bar. After that everything is fine. CPU usage dropped to 0-1% at desktop. Before it was spiking to 80%. Further CPU usage at desk top dropped to around 20% from around 34%.
My theory on the google tool bar is that I took it out of startup using msconfig. However once I opened IE it became active and started using resources trying to catch up on what it missed. Someone with more computer savvy than me can verify this or not.
Lesson learned, watch those tool bars. Seems everyone on the internet wants on your computer. I'll have to load another AV and I'm thinking of AGV or whatever it is.
Addendum: What amazes me is as fast as these computers are these days a few unwarranted programs can bring them to their knees.
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thanx for the info. i never allow outside tool bars so i shouldnt run into this problem, but the info is good to know in case someone else has a similar complaint in the future.
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get ms security essentials, it's free and so far working pretty good on mine.
semp
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iTunes could have caused the problems you were seeing. It is quite bad.
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First I deleted the AV. Then I turned off auto updates. That didn't do the trick. In fact it seemed a bit worse. Then I opened MSconfig and took all the junk out of startup like iTunes, AMD Control Center, etc. That lowered everything. After that I delted every tool bar on my system except the Google Tool bar. Be wary of anything you down load wether you say download it or not it may down load the tool bar. Those tool bars like Ask.com, support.com, and Google. Everything seemed fine until I went back on the internet. Then the system slowed to a crawl. Not just AH but the entire system. So I went back and deleted the google tool bar. After that everything is fine. CPU usage dropped to 0-1% at desktop. Before it was spiking to 80%. Further CPU usage at desk top dropped to around 20% from around 34%.
My theory on the google tool bar is that I took it out of startup using msconfig. However once I opened IE it became active and started using resources trying to catch up on what it missed. Someone with more computer savvy than me can verify this or not.
Lesson learned, watch those tool bars. Seems everyone on the internet wants on your computer. I'll have to load another AV and I'm thinking of AGV or whatever it is.
Addendum: What amazes me is as fast as these computers are these days a few unwarranted programs can bring them to their knees.
I meant memory usage dropped from 34% to 20%.