Re: CPU Hogging

PerryTry a registry clean

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Perry Spiller <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Some time back, I had a real problem with resources being
> hogged by something unknown. A list member
> recommended Process Explorer, a very handy utility which
> enabled me to pin-point the problem (tucked away in a
> svchost instance) and remove it.
>
> More recently, likely immediately after a Skype upgrade,
> my PC slowed to a crawl. E.g. five seconds after a key press,
> before the letter appeared on the screen! After a re-boot or
> two, back to Process Explorer, I went.
>
> 100% CPU use between skype, jqs.exe and anvir.exe.  At
> first, I wasn't sure if the % figure per program meant the %
> of the present amount of CPU usage, or the % of the total
> available CPU. Especially as the System Idle Process reports
> 100% CPU use when the graph is showing less than 2% total
> CPU resources in use. After a while I decided that for jqs.exe
> and anvir.exe, it was reporting total CPU resource usage,
> rather than a % of whatever was the present CPU usage.
>
> jqs is listed as a Java Quick Starter Service
> skype you'll know about and I imagine
> AnVir, as well.
>
> After an uninstall and reinstall, skype seemed to 'come
> right.' But the other two still seem to hog 100% CPU,
> between them. Setting priority to Idle: 4 didn't seem to help.
> Suspending them both drops total CPU use to below 2%.
>
> I'm a bit confuddled by all this. Anyone got any pearls of
> wisdom? (For reason explained before, switch to Linux is
> not a valid one, OK!)
>
> Perry
>
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