Set CPU ti 100%
Hi. I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 on Dell's intel i7. Everything works fine except cpu usage. When rendering in 3D Stud...
cygwin\XWin.exe running using 100% percent cpu time and much
My wife (who has no knowledge about cygwin) had xwin.exe running which used a lot of cpu and bandwith. I assume somebod...
svchost.exe hogging CPU
I have this strange problem where i can hear my hard drive reading/writing every second, then stopping, then starting ag...
Windows Mail CPU 99% upon open
With no other apps running, I open Windows Mail. For 2.5 mins it runs cpu 85-99%, and for first 30 seconds of that, hard...
CPU under utilized
Excel only uses upto 50% of cpu's capacity. Want it to use nearly 100% and speed up results. Vista, Excel 2007, Dell XP...
Audiodg.exe takes 40-50% CPU when playing games
Hello everyone!I recently started having problems when playing games such as Counter-Strike and GTA: San Andreas. All o...
high system CPU on boottime
Since a week or two i have problems during boot time on Vista. When i get to the logon screen my HD is still higly activ...
100% CPU Utilization
Hi,I have Vista Premium running on a Dell PC with 4 gig Ram. I have spyware, antivirus (Mcafee) installed with Visa fi...
Flash - jerky playback and CPU pegged at 100%
This happens in Firefox, Opera and IE - all updated to latest version. Latest version of Flash plugin installed. Updated...
Clarification about Vista, and multiple core Cpu's compatabi
Hi, I was reading on the Windows Vista site at: ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/home...
Vista CPU lag / svchost.exe culprit?
Well, I've had this laptop for over a year now. It's an Acer Aspire 5100, and I've always had problems with lag, graphic...
ntvdm cpu has encountered an illegal instruction vista
Hi I installed audio driver for vista from dell support. after that I recieve this message after start up. also when I r...
2gb to 4gb memory upgrade on x64 issue, cpu usage turned 100
hello,i bought an extra 2gb of mem (same brand,ocz reaper, but diff timing 3-4-4-15) currently installed is 4-4-4-15, fo...
Vista + CPU upgrade
I'm running Vista Business x86 and thinking of upgrading my single core cpu to a dual core cpu. Will this be transpare...
explorer.exe uses much of CPU
Hello! explorer.exe uses about 90% of cpu after a restart for several minutes and in about 10 minutes intervals during ...
I upgraded My CPU
I up graded my cpu and the system freezs constantly, I have ruled out Heat, and PSU, and RAM. I dont get any freezing wh...
cpu fan roaring up fast and furious
I'm another one of those joyous persons who have a cpu fan hike, not in price, but just spinning up so fast, I fear this...
CPU listed as physical or logical cores?
Can somone clear up for me if, in device manger the cpu is listed by logical or physical cores? i.e. Would a quad core ...
USB external hard drive causes extreme CPU useage
Windows Vista Home Premium on a Dell XPS M1530 laptop.The title basically says it all. Whilst using an external USB har...
CPU usage
Hi, since a few days my cpu has always cpu load of about 90 % at core 2. Vista is very slow.Taskmanager shows no applica...
Unidentified CPU?
After trying to update device drivers, I found that one of my 2 Intel Core 2 Duo processors was missing, or hadn't been...
Boot into molasses: CPU and disk at 70%, network not connec
I am repeatedly booting into an unusable system - disk & cpu all used up, and when I can start Task Manager, System ...
testing cpu speed
Hello. Not sure if this is the right group. Is there a way to accurately test cpu speed? Mine is listed at 2.3 GHz. ...
Remote Desktop CLient CPU usage
On a Vista Business PC with SP1, the Remote Desktop client will use excessive amounts of cpu when the screen refreshes....
High Explorer CPU utilization
Hi everyoneI have a strange problem with the explorer. Whenever I click Computer or press Win-E, cpu utilization on two ...
Vista Mouse problem High CPU Usage...............!!!!!!!!!
I have a Very Powerfull Processor, an E8400 3.6 GHZ and after i installed updates when i move my mouse on my desktop my ...
CPU cooler/temps?
What cpu cooler are you using and what are your temps? I'm using a Vigor gaming 92mm Monsoon II and I've been happy with...
ntvdm cpu has encountered an illegal instruction in vista
Hi I installed audio driver for vista from dell support. After that I receive this message after start up. Also when I r...
Unidentified CPU Usage At Idle (w/images)
Performance And Reliability Monitor total cpu usage is higher than the combined processes. There is something mysteriou...
upgread CPU
hellomy computer cpu intel p 4 2.40 GHZ and Upgread the cpu p4 3.06 GHZis good??? on Vista?? -- Jrak...
Laptop CPU Noise
I am not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this, but here we go :)I just bought a new Laptop, All is great, I...
CPU temperature gadget
Hi everyone. Do you know any good gadget that shows you the usage and the temperature of each core of your cpu? Here is...
Searchindexer.exe hogs CPU
We run Vista home premium on a Dell Dimension E521. Last spring our system slowed way down--we didn't know why. We backe...
DcomLaunch CPU Issue
Please read all these and please provide an answer, this is really annoying.http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/q...
Networking services blocking internet, eating 50% CPU
Hello everyone,Your help will be very valuable right now. I'm running Windows Server 2008 x64 as a laptop/client OS on ...
deterministic network enhancer / CPU Spikes
I was using Cisco VPN 5.0.01 and was having no problems until the recent update my company did to Version 5.0.04. I ha...
Explorer process engross 50-60% CPU
My OS is Vista U, after updated OS, the explore process engross 50-60% cpu resource, and the taskbar hangs, kill explore...
CPU restarts after shutting down
This has happened since the day I bought the cpu home. I am sure I click on the 'shut down' command and the cpu would sh...
Vista CPU Change
Hello I want to try a new cpu an my PC and then if it is not suitable change back to original, is this OK in Vista or d...
CPU Performance Problems
This relates to my experience with Vista Home Premium so I cannot comment on other versions.My experience has been that ...
CPU utilization spikes, quad core system, Vista Ultimate 64-
I built a Q9450 quad-core based system with 8GB of RAM and have installed Vista Ultimate 64-bit, SP1. Frequently, some...
CPU Maximum Frequency always 100%
Why is the cpu Maximum Frequency is always 100%?[image: http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/2695/11062008jk9.png][image: ...
CPU overheats w/ Vista
I have a eMachines T3990 that was an XP machine. I had recently upgraded to Vista. Since that time my system will only s...
Task Manager window only CPU
Vista Ultimate SP2When I launch Windows Task Manager, only a cpu meter opens. When I right click icon in task bar, I on...
WMP chaotic CPU usage
Hello, I have Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 ( x64 ). I listen my music through Windows Media Player 11. Some...
Is my CPU FRIED???????? :( Please have a look at this!
Hi all...So I've let my laptop overheat several times, and all of a sudden, I found it to be slow! As molasses. I ran so...
Explorer.exe uses much CPU for several minutes in 10 minutes
Hello! Explorer.exe began to use much of cpu (it look like) after increasing RAM from 2GB to 6GB. Explorer.exe uses muc...
CPU Usage 50-60% -- Vista x64
I have just installed Vista x64. I checked Task Manager and found it indicated that the cpu usage was 50 to 60%. There...
Vista using only one core on core2 duo cpu
Recently my hard drive took a surge and stopped booting, even though I could still get to the files. I reloaded Vista on...
cpu @ 100% for some accounts
Netowrked vista laptops on active directory with a 2003 server. When users log in, they hang during the logon script. ...
Windows Search makes explorer.exe use 90% of CPU. Cure my wi
Hello! explorer.exe uses 90% of cpu after opening a HDD in a windows explorer window for minutes. Other windows account...
High CPU utilization with svchost.exe / dwm.exe
Been running Vista Enterprise for almost a year, with no issues. This problem just began last night.When booting my com...
Updating CPU and motherboard and CPU with a vista operating
Hi I have an oldish coputer with an Intel cpu and a Via chip set. It has Vista and XP on a dual boot. The Vista was ins...
Audiodg.exe consuming up to 40% CPU usage
Hi, I need help. Sometimes, I found system very slow. I recently checked the task manager and found there's a process n...
overheating cpu
hi all need help i have upgrade to vista home prem 32bit from xp, but when doing some things abit taxing (like burning a...
How to troubleshoot spiking CPU/Hard drive graph?
I have narrowed down my serious start up degradation on a Gateway ML3109 to spiking cpu and Disk activity as I start up...
Hardware interrupts using 50 % of the CPU usage... Need some
I have bought a new vaio cs 35 lap... But after getting booted automatically the new process "Hardware interrupts&q...
CPU core 2 not working on Vista 64bit
I have an Asus G50VT with an Intel P8700 Mobile 2.53Ghz and 4G Ram....For the past couple of days I have noticed that my...
A heat problem or CPU
My PC started to crash 15 min after start up then it shuts down and restarts and restarts over and over and never reall...
Media 11 crashes after CPU upgrade
My Vista Ultimate hardware just went from 2 GB RAM to 4 GB and the cpu was upgraded to an Intel E8500. Before upgrade M...
CPU heatsink fan
I like to build computers as a hobby and have been doing it for some years now. I have some family and I have generall...
Monitor causes strangely high CPU usage
My computer (Dell XPS 1330) runs fine without the monitor (Dell 20" SP2008WFP) but intermittently hits 100% cpu usa...
CPU Spikes and Audio Lag
I need help My PC has been having cpu usage spikes every few seconds. This wouldn't be so bad as it causes a minimal amo...
Re: Acceptable CPU Temperature Range
Thanks for sharing this useful information. It's great.'_taux_pret_auto_' (http://pret-auto.org) -- lindapret88 -------...
cpu stuck at 50 percent usage or higher
I'm using an x2 6000 processor. I have tried everything imaginable to fix this overloading of the cpu. I have reformatte...
look Usage CPU on Vista
hellothis usage cpu Vista new cpu 2.80GHZ pentium 4 and Start Nero :):):) Vrey good (^_^)[image: http://www.bahrainicoo...
DCOMLaunch SVCHOST Plug & Play Hi CPU usage
I noticed every time I boot up I hear my computer fan speed up (as if the computer were working extra hard). When I ch...
svchost hog cpu after sleep
Hi all.I got this issue last week and I just research something about it. I hope you mind with me. English is not my mot...
Microsoft Street & Trips & NTVDM CPU Illegal Operation - HEL
Hello. I need your help. I have Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 installed on my computer. One of the programs I have ins...
Re: CPU Usage 50-60% -- Vista x64
Most likely it was the initial indexing and defragging you experienced. The System Idle Process is the inverse of the ...
60% CPU Usage all the time
Hello...I've just had my computer for a few days and I've noticed that the cpu usage meter is at 60% all the time now (...
Vista Home Premium - Multiple CPU Registry Hack\Tweak
Anyone know of a way to enable multi cpu support in Windows Vista Home Premium? There has to be a way to alter the regis...
acpi.sys cpu utilization
I have a 3GHz dual core with 8GB of ram on Vista 64 bit and the "system" process, that normally should only b...
window vista --high cpu usage
just recently, my ibm lenovo 3000 became slugginsh. Resource Monitor show explorer is consuming a lot of cpu...nothing e...
100% CPU Usage - Lockup
Hi Everyone, I have a desktop computer with Windows Vista Basic 32 bit (dual core Celeron, 2 GB RAM). After it has bee...
netsvcs uses high cpu when opening ICS
I have an Ethernet modem. I connect Internet with it and share my internet connection with others by using wireless net...
Wrong CPU speed, with Q6600
I dont know it it shuld be like this. But I have Overclocked the cpu and ram. This is not the issuse. My Q is. When I kl...
High CPU due to Interrupts
Dear All:My system has a high cpu utilization. I was running on old version of XP Pro. I recently performed a bare metal...
Vista: high (45-50%) CPU usage due to hardware interrupts
Like many other people, every now and again the cpu useage on my Vista machine goes up to 45-50% (which is likely to be...
High CPU utilization by system and NDIS.SYS
I've been send from group to group, and hope this is the one :)I've recently been having problems while vista is booting...
New Motherboard / CPU
I need help, I use to be able to access alt.hardware from newsgroup, but my ISP has decided that newsgroups are useless...
high cpu usage new computer
Hi, First time poster, I bought a Compaq SR5413WM about 4 weeks ago. I use it for Voip based applications, light browsin...
CPU Activity
Since I started using Vista Home Premium my cpu when my computer is idle would run at 2-3 %. Now at idle it runs at 5...
High CPU system process during boot when using Wireless
I've recently been having problems while vista is booting.Sometimes, during boot, my CPH utilization is an average of 90...
Explorer.exe draining 80-95% CPU
I'm not quite sure how to fix this one... Just today, my explorer.exe started sapping my cpu. I haven't a clue why, but...
Hardware Interupts Causing 100% CPU Usage
Hi,I have an Acer 4810TZ; Im looking for a definite fix for this 100% cpu lock - when some hardware starts to hammer it...
replacing CPU.
Just recently got an Intel Q6600 Quad core, just going to do a straight swop with an Intel dual core Q6320,Mine is a tri...
Quad core CPU problem
I have had vista sp1 for a while now and have just recived a new Q6600 i hace installed it and the bios identifies it co...
vista mail 100% cpu
When I have Vista Mail running in the back ground it uses 100% of the cpu and slows down my laptop and flattens the batt...
CPU at 100 usage after bad sectors
I hope someone can help me out on this. I'm not a novice, but I'm not far from being one either. The problem started wi...
Windows Vista Hogging 51% CPU all the time
I am having the problem of windows vista taking up 51% cpu all the time once it startupsThe Process that is hogging up ...
CPU running at 100% and memory at maximum, getting mad!
Dear all,I've enjoyed my dell XPS M1330 laptop for over two years now. Never had any significant trouble with it...until...
intel Dual-Core CPU not recognized AGAIN!
This is getting totally rediculeous. TWICE now when I've had to do a repair-install of a microsoft operating system it ...
Why does Vista explorer.exe hog cpu & how do I stop it?
I've seen a few messages on this, but none with cures or explanations.Am on dual core machine with 32 bit Vista, so expl...
Windows Mail using almost 100% CPU
Much of the time that I'm using Windows Mail my cpu use goes to 100%, with almost all of the use being from WinMail.exe...
Driver responsible for CPU fan control?
Hello,since a few weeks I have the following problem with my Notebook. (Toshiba Satego X200)If I start it the first time...
100% CPU Usage Caused By Adobe Flash Plugin
So i've been dealing with 100% cpu usage for the last 3 weeks. I've narrowed down the cause to the Flash plugin for ANY ...
How do I specialize CPU cores for certain categories of task
I read in a long-lost PC Magazine that there was some utility (built-in or otherwise) that lets you specialize your cpu...
Windows Explorer takes up full CPU at times
When I have a certain location open, Windows Explorer takes up nearly all of my cpu usage. My Sidebar Gadget (Multi Me...
What codec makes explorer.exe load CPU?
Hello! explorer.exe uses 90% of cpu for a minute when I open a folder with movies or scroll the list of the files. The ...
Vista won't show the correct CPU clock speed
Hi guys. please look at the images. From some reason, Vista won't show the correct clock speed of my cpu. Do you know wh...
System PID 4 consuming 50% CPU with RDP enabled
Hi All,Exactly as per title, If I enable Remote Desktop on the system the cpu jumps to and runs constantly between 78% a...
Which CPU should I use
HiI have two spare cpu's and am not certain which one will give me the best performance.1) Intel Pentium D (Dual Core) ...