I recently reinstalled windows xp pro and now the "system" proccess is always using all free cpu. It's not "system idle proccess" just system.After installing right off the xp pro disk, all i did was install the updates up to and through SP2, my motherboard drivers, video drivers, winamp and AIM. Other than that, nothing else has been done, yet system is still using all free cpu.I checked to make sure all drivers were current.
View 14 RepliesYou can see which previous items that have been run or are currently running on your system tray by clicking on Start >> Settings >> Taskbar and Start Menu, tick the box that says "Hide inactive icons" then click "customize". There you will see a list of Current and Past items. If you would like to remove the past items then follow these steps: 1. Start Regedit. If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to the FAQ on how to get started. 2.Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerTrayNotify 3. Delete the keys Past Icons Stream and Icon Streams 4. Exit regedit and restart Explorer. 5. To end explorer right clicking anywhere on the system tray and choosing "Task Manager". Click on the "Processes" tab and find Explorer.exe. Click the End Process button. Your whole systemtray should disappear. 6. To restart Explorer, while still in Task Manager, go to the "applications" tab and choose the New Task.. button. Simply type Explorer.exe and click OK.
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"The type of the file system is NTFS. Enter current volume lable for drive C:
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been having a problem with my PC running extremely slow for the past several days and it seems to be related to the process named 'System' when viewing Windows Task Manager. The CPU usage looks like this:
System 50
System Idle Process 48-49
taskmgr.exe 01
other processes move between 0 to 1 (iexplorer, sqlservr, services) Here is a copy of the HJT scan that I took a little earlier today. what is dragging my PC down is most ...
My task manager shows my 'system' resource using 60,996k of memory. The CPU usage is not high (basically absent) and the memory usage stays static at 60,996 regardless of what I do (even after a reboot). I need to know why this is happening! Thanks in advance...
BTW, it's XP home.. fully patched, and it's a very new install.
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If I use Windows Explorer to go deeper than the first level of any tree, CPU usage goes to 100% and stays there. I've disabled System Restore because it wouldn't let me go back in time anyway and this program is a known resource gobbler. Didn't help. I've attached a hijackthis logfile to see if anyone recognizes a Trojan, etc. I would appreciate any help at all.
I suspect that my PC is infected with Vundo. Ran FixVundo (Symantec Trojan.Vundo Removal Tool 1.5.0)in safemode but was not detected.
Seeing gebyy.dll and pmnnnkk.dll in Hijackthis! but unable to fix (log attached).
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA)
Scan saved at 11:54:54 PM, on 10/18/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
D:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe
D:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe
D:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe
D:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exe
D:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
D:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe
D:WINDOWSsystem32spoolsv.exe
D:WINDOWSExplorer.EXE
D:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe
D:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
D:PROGRAM FILESPROCESS EXPLORERPROCEXP.EXE
D:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe
D:Program FilesInternet Exploreriexplore.exe
D:Documents and SettingsBuzzDesktopHiJackThis_v2.exe
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {837B45D6-BF85-457D-AABF-6D2E7815F791} - D:WINDOWSsystem32pmnnnkk.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {CF3941B9-5A9D-4657-8E2F-D40E79C4AEDA} - D:WINDOWSsystem32gebyy.dll
O4 - HKLM..Run: [PinnacleDriverCheck] D:WINDOWSsystem32PSDrvCheck.exe -CheckReg
O4 - HKCU..Run: [ctfmon.exe] D:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe
O16 - DPF: {0B79F48A-E8D6-11DB-9283-E25056D89593} (F-Secure Online Scanner 3.1) - http://support.f-secure.com/ols/fscax.cab
O20 - Winlogon Notify: pmnnnkk - D:WINDOWSSYSTEM32pmnnnkk.dll
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End of file - 1244 bytes
i know this has been posted before but none of the solutions have worked for me. i have a toshiba satellite laptop. it started running extremely slow and the cpu usage is at 100% all the time. i reformatted and reinstalled windows xp but that didn't solve the problem. i noticed when i was reinstalling windows xp, it was going slowly as it did before, and i hadn't even started up windows yet. when i would click the next button when installing it would do the same slow lagging thing. i tried everything when i did start windows too. i tried deleting the explorer.exe process and retyping it in
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