WHy is my PC showing a 100% utilization whereas there arent any applications running???***solved...thanks to madrat***

[Dreadogg]

man I must be going on some bad sites or something because I always have like 100+ when I do it like every month or so!LOL

 

[Bozo Galora]

and the Oscar goes to.....................
Madrat, for network services

come up and say a few words.

 

[Linux23]

haha, who would have guessed a MS service, killing the CPU running MS Windows?

 

[benjamit]

yes you can. hit ctrl-alt-del, click on task manager, and then you can use that to run a command, namely "explorer.exe"

i didn't know/noticed this, thanks

 

[MadRat]

The only reason I knew that is because the same service strangled my network. The CPU utilization is what you see locally, but the hub and router see the constant flow of nonsense. It'll easily eat up 30% or more of your network bandwidth.

 

[ronein]

added some info....look on the first thread

 

[MadRat]

You can turn off the service altogether under the Network Services setup. Its buried in the options under QoS (Quality of Service) or some nonsense like that.

 

[ronein]

Thanks for the additional info, MadRat!

 

[MadRat]

I just hope it helps save you the extra work killing processes.

 

[AG73]

BTW if you got in on the recently popular Dell Optiplex GX240 deal (1.6ghz for $358 shipped), a program that automatically starts up with windows, DELLMMKB.exe, eats up 100% of system resources for about 3 minutes after a fresh reboot. The program is for keyboard drivers. I just unchecked the box in the "startup" tab of msconfig, and now it's much better. All I lose is functionality of those 3 extra useless buttons on the keyboard, which are for standby, email and IE6.

Dell gave me this link to fix the problem, but I found it easy enough to just uncheck the box in msconfig.

AG