Hi there...
I've noticed that my laptop have been extremly slower than normal lately (Its a P3 500 mhz with 256 mb ram). I looked in my taskmager in windows xp and noticed that a particular program called "winkoa.exe" was using almost 100% of my CPU usage. When I disabled the program (in taskmanger) I saw marked improvement both in my speed, mutlitasking and memory function. However, throughout the day, I noticed that it would restart again and soon my computer is back to the slower state again. It never used to be this way. I pride myself in keep my laptop in great working condition. I keep on having to disable this program if I want to see improvement..and I don't even know what this program does. I've tried to disable it in my startup boot and even in mscofig, but could not find it associated with any programs loading up.
When I tried to do a system restore, I noticed that no restore point was available since I started to manually disable this program (winkoa.exe). I knew that there were restore points available before b/c I saw some a few days ago. I think by diabling the program, it deleted the already created restore points. Can any one helped me? Here are my quesitons:
1. What does winkoa.exe do?
2. Can I disable the program without having any harm to my system?
3. If winkoa.exe is needed, how can I make it use less of my cpu's allowances or resources (I tried setting it to a low priority already in taskmanager but it windows xp wouldn't allow it)
4. When disabling it, does it have any effect of my system restore points?
Any ideas or help from anyone would be great. I just like to thank you in advace for all your help.
James
This is not a HIGHLY TECHNICAL question.
AnandTech Moderator
I've noticed that my laptop have been extremly slower than normal lately (Its a P3 500 mhz with 256 mb ram). I looked in my taskmager in windows xp and noticed that a particular program called "winkoa.exe" was using almost 100% of my CPU usage. When I disabled the program (in taskmanger) I saw marked improvement both in my speed, mutlitasking and memory function. However, throughout the day, I noticed that it would restart again and soon my computer is back to the slower state again. It never used to be this way. I pride myself in keep my laptop in great working condition. I keep on having to disable this program if I want to see improvement..and I don't even know what this program does. I've tried to disable it in my startup boot and even in mscofig, but could not find it associated with any programs loading up.
When I tried to do a system restore, I noticed that no restore point was available since I started to manually disable this program (winkoa.exe). I knew that there were restore points available before b/c I saw some a few days ago. I think by diabling the program, it deleted the already created restore points. Can any one helped me? Here are my quesitons:
1. What does winkoa.exe do?
2. Can I disable the program without having any harm to my system?
3. If winkoa.exe is needed, how can I make it use less of my cpu's allowances or resources (I tried setting it to a low priority already in taskmanager but it windows xp wouldn't allow it)
4. When disabling it, does it have any effect of my system restore points?
Any ideas or help from anyone would be great. I just like to thank you in advace for all your help.
James
This is not a HIGHLY TECHNICAL question.
AnandTech Moderator
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