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| Thread ID: 125509 | 2012-07-03 09:19:00 | HiJack log Weird system problem | jupiter1 (2578) | Press F1 |
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| 1285626 | 2012-07-06 10:53:00 | Have a look in Task Manager/Processes and see what is running and using CPU cycles/time, System Idle Process should be at 99% when ready to go. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1285627 | 2012-07-07 04:03:00 | zqwerty, Taskmngr/processes. On my m-c the excessive disk activity prevents me activating task mngr for sometime. When I do get it activated all or most CPU usage figures are 00. Memory figures are all over the place but most of them are in the 0 to 9999 range. However, 3 seem very high.... exrlorer.exe = 17000 svchost = 26000 msmpeng.exe = 57000 we are now in an area which all smoke and mirrors to me. |
jupiter1 (2578) | ||
| 1285628 | 2012-07-07 04:15:00 | They're not that high. For example, my explorer.exe is using 32,280. I've got 11 svchost's, the largest single one is using 106,248. And something like opera is using over 300,000. In your processes tab of the task manager, at the bottom it should show how much physical memory is being used, as well as how many tasks are running. Boot windows up, and then check that before opening anything else. What percent of physical memory is being used, and how many processes are open? |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1285629 | 2012-07-07 04:40:00 | Nick G, No Proc's = 28 Phys Mem = 248/4397 Most (but not all) of the heavy HDD activity has finished by the time I can get in and launch Task Mngr. |
jupiter1 (2578) | ||
| 1285630 | 2012-07-07 04:48:00 | Memory figures are all over the place but most of them are in the 0 to 9999 range. However, 3 seem very high.... exrlorer.exe = 17000 svchost = 26000 msmpeng.exe = 57000 Those are not unusually high. But "exrlorer.exe" is not a legitimate Windows process. If that is not a spelling error, it is suspect. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1285631 | 2012-07-07 04:53:00 | Nick G, No Proc's = 28 Phys Mem = 248/4397 Most (but not all) of the heavy HDD activity has finished by the time I can get in and launch Task Mngr. I'm in win7, so I'm not sure if its the same in xp, but can you get into the task manager quicker by right clicking on the taskbar, and clicking start task manager. Also, as agent_24 said, exrlorer.exe isn't legit. Was it a typing error or is exrlorer.exe actually listing as a process? |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1285632 | 2012-07-07 05:04:00 | Agent_24 yep, typo explorer.exe Nick G, I am Rt clicking T/bar. I appreciate everybody's help on this. One thought to consider. For the past several months I have been using DeFraggler by Piriform instead of DeFrag by MS. Early yesterday after running adaware, spybot, malwarebytes and ms essentials (all clean), I ran MS defrag and since then the machine has been a "little" faster. I also applied the fixes to Hijack as suggested |
jupiter1 (2578) | ||
| 1285633 | 2012-07-07 05:27:00 | You really don't need adaware, so uninstall that. How often are you defragging? On a modern system you really don't need to. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1285634 | 2012-07-07 06:04:00 | I sometimes find that Adaware finds an issue that the other 3 miss. I defrag about every 3 months or so. The graphic usually shows the disk quite badly fragmented. After the boot up the first time I launch something like word or excel for instance it takes 5 to 7 secs to come in. If I close the progy and launch again sometime later (without a re boot) it comes up in about 1-2 secs. It seems many moons ago now but progys used to launch almost instantly. Populating the icons in control panel and the progy names in the start menu also exhibits the same symptoms |
jupiter1 (2578) | ||
| 1285635 | 2012-07-07 06:27:00 | That doesn't sound too bad program start wise. If you want to, try this (www.carolsvault.com) and see if it make a difference | Nick G (16709) | ||
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