- Jun 17, 2011
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Windows XP SP3
AMD Athlon X2 64 4200+
2GB Ram
Hi all,
After starting up my PC as normal this morning I noticed it was a little slow so I immediately brought up the Task Manager and noticed that taskmgr.exe was using around 12% CPU thus slowing my PC down.
I then opened up the program Process Explorer to see if I could find out a little more information on this.
At first taskmgr.exe was not to be found in Process Explorer so I opened up the Task Manager itself an then it appeared in Process Explorer. I then looked under threads (I have no idea what this is but seemed to remember a while back to look here for more info) and saw 3 processes for taskmgr.exe, 2 of which were using hardly any cpu and then the one below.
taskmgr.exe+0x5944 which is now using around 30% CPU.
I thought at first it could be Avira AV which I uninstalled but the problem still persisted, I have since reinstalled a new version of Avira. It doesn't seem to be link to Comodo Firewall either. The only new programs which I installed since this probelm occured was Wise Registry Cleaner and Sim City 4.
I am very careful with my security setup and would be surprised if this was due to some kind of virus/malware, but this probelm is very annoying. I have not as of yet done a scan with Malware Bytes or Avira as I am wondering if someone has any experience of this before I perform any scans.
I have tried to solve the problem myself and even checking out for solutions on this site but now I am at a loss, plus I am not the most computer savvy either.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks for reading.
Grah.
EDIT:
Also in Safe Mode the problem goes away which leads me to believe it's maybe a startup program. Not really sure though, for only a 15% CPU usage it's really slowing down my PC.
AMD Athlon X2 64 4200+
2GB Ram
Hi all,
After starting up my PC as normal this morning I noticed it was a little slow so I immediately brought up the Task Manager and noticed that taskmgr.exe was using around 12% CPU thus slowing my PC down.
I then opened up the program Process Explorer to see if I could find out a little more information on this.
At first taskmgr.exe was not to be found in Process Explorer so I opened up the Task Manager itself an then it appeared in Process Explorer. I then looked under threads (I have no idea what this is but seemed to remember a while back to look here for more info) and saw 3 processes for taskmgr.exe, 2 of which were using hardly any cpu and then the one below.
taskmgr.exe+0x5944 which is now using around 30% CPU.
I thought at first it could be Avira AV which I uninstalled but the problem still persisted, I have since reinstalled a new version of Avira. It doesn't seem to be link to Comodo Firewall either. The only new programs which I installed since this probelm occured was Wise Registry Cleaner and Sim City 4.
I am very careful with my security setup and would be surprised if this was due to some kind of virus/malware, but this probelm is very annoying. I have not as of yet done a scan with Malware Bytes or Avira as I am wondering if someone has any experience of this before I perform any scans.
I have tried to solve the problem myself and even checking out for solutions on this site but now I am at a loss, plus I am not the most computer savvy either.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks for reading.
Grah.
EDIT:
Also in Safe Mode the problem goes away which leads me to believe it's maybe a startup program. Not really sure though, for only a 15% CPU usage it's really slowing down my PC.
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