cpu usage

when trying to process recorded tv files into dvd files using nero the hard drive read/write is huge and the process monitor shows the 'system' file is monopolising the hard drive. i disabled superfetch and that stopped it at the time but it now keeps happening and i can't see whats causing it...

some time after starting windows computer HDD will start to spin all the time (or at leasts that's what HDD LED says). This makes the system respond very slow or halt making it virtually useless - it can persist for quite a long time until the system crashes with blue screen or I reset it...

Hello. this problem started a few day's ago all of a sudden. (note that it's more than 3 months after the last time i formatted, and the problem only occurred lately) So, the problem is, that no matter where i move my mouse, it cause a massive CPU spike. moving the mouse around on the desktop...

Hello my fiance recently bought my a Xbox 360 Slim. I setup the windows media center extender and it works fine. But my issue is with my Computer. My proccessor is maxxing out whenever the process for the Media Center Network is running. The only solution i have found is to end the process...

A couple of days ago I was looking through my documents shall we say and I clicked out the window and remembered I forgot something so I clicked on my computer then went to click on my local disk icon when I get this message saying their no file extension to open the drive so I just shrug it of...

i am using win7 ultimate (32-bit) with core i-3 well the problem is that i have downloaded some videos form youtube and other video hosting site and now when i open the folder of these "explorer.exe" certainly start using 96-99 of CPU and almost hang all the other programs. I also tried to del...

I have recently restored my computer to factory condition and then downloaded the newest Reltek HD drivers from the reltek site and when i play certain games there is popping/crackling sounds... sometimes when im on youtube fullscreen it does it to but when i play music from computer it doesnt...

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Hello forum, sorry to have my first post be a question, but I'm at my wits end. Please forgive me, and offer ANY advice you might have. I have Win 7 - 64bit currently, and have been using it for about a year now. I have always had 4gb of RAM installed, and have done various "other" upgrades...

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Hello everyone, I've had this problem for a little over a month now and was ignoring it but now I think it is really effecting my computers speed causing ip helper service to use a lot of CPU. Anyways onto the problem. So I have around 30-40 unknown devices listed under my network adapters in...

Did anyone ever find it useful to change a process priority? I never did. When I encode full HD video in Encore, it takes a lot of CPU power and even if I watch an HD movie on KMplayer, it has a little stutter. I tried lowering the Encore process priority and I also tried raising the...

Hi guys, I have had XP Pro for a number of years now, and I know full well that after a while it had always deteriorated and I would have to format. This happened for around the third time where it became nearly unbareably slow. I figured since it keeps happening, and to generally get with the...

at the start of my computer ranging anywhere from 10min-3 hours( and reoccurs sometimes), both my cpus stay at 100%, and when i looked at performance monitor, it showed that SVCHOST.EXE (netsvcs) was using 40-50 percent of the cpu. The high cpu usage also messes up any type of audio(causing...

Hi I recently installed windows 7 64x on my computer after having windows Vista 64x for 2 years. However there is one problem, It seems i only use about 50 % of my CPU capacity. I discovered the problem when I tried playing Crysis, Which I never have had any problem playing with Vista. The...

Hi there! This is really annoying me now. I recently installed Windows 7 and now when I open a folder containing wav files explorer jumps up to 50 to 80 CPU usage. The folder contains wav music files because I am converting them from 320 mp3, and FLAC to use in Ableton Live, which is a...

I have just installed the 32-bit Adobe Master Suite on my work PC and the one program I need the most (Dreamweaver) hangs at 100% at all times after opening. ALL other Adobe CS5 programs DON'T do this, and remain at a low 0-20% during idle. This just started happening about a a day ago, and...

I installed Win 7 and then went back and re-installed all of the drivers. I then went into the Device manager and updated the drivers via windows and the internet. Yet everytime I enable the connection to the internet my CPU usage jumps to 100% and 40-60 percent of that is because of the System...

On starting my computer this morning I have noticed the CPU cooling fans running a little harder than I'm used to hearing when just using Firefox. On looking at the task manager I have noticed that rather than sitting at the normal 0% CPU usage when idle a process labelled NTVDM.exe is...

I've been having this problem off and on since I installed W7 that my CPU is spiking during low network use (e.g. 2-3mbit/sec). My setup is W7 (32), Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 ghz, Asus P5E-VMDO, 8gb memory. Network Adapter is an embedded Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit. No other network adapters are...