GRR Windows Menu Problems! Causing Computer to Hang!

[yhelothar]

Whenever I right click something, and the menu comes down... well if I mouse over a word that has a submenu that comes out, like send to, or arrange icons, my windows will hang for around 5-20 seconds.

It just started happening two reboots ago...

 

[yhelothar]

damn this problem is REALLY REALLY annoying!!! does anyone have a clue what is going on?
I opened task manager... and I went to sort by CPU usage.. and when I goto a menu, I see a process called csrss.exe make the cpu utilization jump up...
windows says it's a critical process so I cannot close it...
wtf is going on?

 

[yhelothar]

ok i just tried replacing the file with the same file on the cd...
which is half the size... 200KB instead of 400KB...
well my computer wouldn't start up... the second it's done loading windows.... i get bsod and it reboots...

grrr what the hell happened?? i really don't feel like reinstalling windows AGAIN!

 

[yhelothar]

anyone have the slightest idea?

 

[yhelothar]

GRRRR!!! COME ON SOMEONE!!

 

[kazeakuma]

What version of windows are you running? If you've installed a Service Pack, you'll need the crss.exe from the Service Pack, not the one off the CD. That will probably get you back into windows. Are the menus slow to display? Try turning the effects off in Control Panel>Display>Effects and turn off all the transition effects. This won't fix the problem but it might help it a little.

Let me know how you go, because I think we'll need more info on this.

 

[yhelothar]

thanks finally someone..
I just tried that.. didn't help...
I'm using Windows Server 2003

I'm back in Windows too... I made a backup of the original csrss.exe before I replaced it with the one on the cd... thankfully

 

[yhelothar]

ttt

 

[yhelothar]

ANY IDEAS?

 

[kazeakuma]

Sorry, I was away over the weekend.

I found this searching, it seems this guy had the same problem. This is how he fixed it.

http://www.computing.net/windows2003/wwwboard/forum/158.html

He did it using this utility CLI Process Viewer

He set the csrss.exe to Low priority, then back to normal priority. Apparently it should run fine then, however you need to do it at every bootup. So a batch file could simplify this for you.

 

[yhelothar]

thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :heart:

i tried to change the priority to low before.. just when i was messing around...
wouldn't change though...
good program

 

[kazeakuma]

So it worked I take it? It sounds like something good to know if this is a fairly common problem with 2003, which it would seem to be.

 

[yhelothar]

yeap it works...
i added a shortcut to my startup folder for that processes program.. and changed the shortcut to c:\processes.exe -p csrss.exe low
now it automatically fixes it at bootup.