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Many of you use Sysinternals tools to help you manage computing responsibilities ranging from monitoring/understanding process activity with Process Explorer to debugging Win32 code with DebugView. With over 70 utilities to choose from, Sysinternals tools cover a wide swath of computing, from...

I have an admin account, but it's the only account for my computer. I used to have plenty of old accounts, some of which were also admin accounts. When I decided to delete them, I chose to keep the files just in case. Now I realize I don't need them but it won't let me delete them. I went to...

My firewall, security settings and browsing has been disabled. The various remedies (process explorer, task manager) has been tried in SAFE MODE but they do not work. Please suggest appropriate way of removal of win7 internet security 2011 virus.

I have 4GB RAM on my notebook and a few apps running in the background. I'd like to know if there's a way to find out what's eating my RAM (at rest, about 75% of it is in use). I have Process Explorer - but that only tells me the % CPU used by app.

Hello, I kinda have a problem, we'll atleast i think i do. Whenever my pc boots up, CPU usage is like 30-60% for 10 minutes after startup. I've checked process explorer and it looks like a process called svchost.exe (netsvc) is behind this problem. To be more exact, its the services i think...

In this video, Joe Stackhouse and Mike Fara discuss Process Explorer, and its unique abilities to diagnose system processes, including malware infections.

Arrgh, this has been plaguing me for weeks and I still haven't found a solution, even after perusing all manner of forums and FAQs. Windows 7, 64 bit, here. Whenever I boot up my computer, physical memory used by my usual applications (Usually AIM, Firefox, and Windows Media Player) hovers...

I have an Asus U50F notebook. Specs: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, Intel Core i3 CPU M330 @ 2.13 GHz, 4.0GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics. For the past three days, for no apparent reason, I get frequent intervals of CPU spikes of up to 100% load on both cores. I've checked Task Manager and Process...

I can hear my C hard drive thrashing away when my system is idle, and even when my system is running programs. Thought it might be Firefox that's using the hard drive a lot - checked it out, uses the hd a bit but no more than usual, but I can still hear the hard drive clicking away. So I close...

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What is Page File: In storage, a pagefile is a reserved portion of a hard disk that is used as an extension of random access memory (RAM) for data in RAM that hasn’t been used recently. A pagefile can be read from the hard disk as one contiguous chunk of data and thus faster than...

I had ignored it for the first few days here on Win7, but now it is being real annoying. First off hardware list. Win7-64-enterprise PhenomII 940 4Gb 1066 Muskin MSI K9A2 Platinum His 4890 1g Audigy 1 pci No raid in use No Overclocking Windows is installed on a 120 ide WD on a separate 14gb...

Hello Forum, When I'm viewing an online video or streaming Internet radio, more often than not my CPU will spike to 100 percent and slow considerably and stay there until I pause the video or audio. I've only experienced the problem for the past week. It is the same whether using IE or Firefox...

I have a problem with windows 7. After few hours working the memory usage begin to rise rapidly and after some time it reaches 80 per. I have 4GB DDR 2 and the normal usage is about 30-35 per. My first idea was that there is memory leak in some of the new programs i've installed but in the end i...

I looked at my task manager via Process Explorer and found about 20 instances of rundll associated with wininet.dll. I totally don't understand this. I have researched viruses and found no traces related to the virus form of wininet.dll. After I rebooted things look normal. Can anyone give me...

Hi everyone! i just got my copy of WINDOWS 7 today and i did a full reboot. I notice that i cant run any of my software due to my 100% cpu usage.. i barely got any software on it, -Avir anti virus -Win rar - ableton live 7 so there is barely anything on there..my windows 7 is slow...

Computer stats Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit Gigabyte Socket 775 Mobo Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 CPU Nvidia 8800GT 4 GB DDR2 Ram MSI TV Anywhere PCI TV Tuner Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS I have recently beginning with last Thursday been experiencing after a good 4-7 hours of the computer being on a massive spike...

Anyone else on here using the yahoo widget Surius Satellite radio tuner?I am trying to see if anyone can corroberate an odd escalating CPU usage by this widget. When it is first started you get the low 6-7% CPU you would expect from simple streaming audio but after being on for an hour or two...

I've done a fair amount of reading and searching on CPU Usage in Windows 7 (both Beta & RC 1) and haven't had any luck with this issue yet. The machine I'm using contains: Asus P4P800 motherboard Intel P4 2.8 GHz dual core 2.5 GB of ram GeForce 7800 GS 256MB Clean install of Windows 7...

I have just installed Windows 7 RC Ultimate version on a Dell D630 Laptop. Eveything is running fine until I connect to a network. SVCHost.exe runs continuosly a 50%. I have used process explorer and the svchost causing the issue is running Windows Firewall, DEP and another service (cant...