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| Thread ID: 106416 | 2010-01-07 20:52:00 | Excessive pagefile usage at startup | Strommer (42) | Press F1 |
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| 846737 | 2010-01-13 20:28:00 | Disable the pagefile, then re-create it. See if that fixes it. OK, ready to try this. Speedy, do I disable the pf, reboot, then re-create it (system managed)? Or skip rebooting? My pc has 1G RAM. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 846738 | 2010-01-13 20:37:00 | Dunno what the pf is. Just disable the pagefile, reboot then put it on system managed again | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 846739 | 2010-01-14 05:45:00 | Dunno what the pf is. Just disable the pagefile, reboot then put it on system managed again Thanks. pf = pagefile :) |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 846740 | 2010-01-14 05:46:00 | Duh :p Yup, you would have to reboot for it to work | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 846741 | 2010-01-14 19:16:00 | Bugger, disabling / re-enabling the pagefile did not work . With no pagefile it was as usual - high pagefile and cpu usage . Then rebooting with System Managed pagefile was the same . Here is an analysis of the problem: Graph of high pagefile and cpu usage - Task Manager . imagef1 . net . nz/files/Pagefile_" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz(2) . jpg High Mem usage by services . exe - Task Manager . imagef1 . net . nz/files/Pagefile_" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz(3) . jpg High CPU usage by System Idle Process - Task Manager . imagef1 . net . nz/files/22a_" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz(Medium) . jpg Active process list as shown by Comodo . imagef1 . net . nz/files/Pagefile_" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz(1) . jpg After 5 - 10 minutes, WinXP returns to normal . imagef1 . net . nz/files/Pagefile_ . jpg" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz I have run repeated AV and malware scans, plus HijackThis . Nothing . Any ideas? |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 846742 | 2010-01-14 19:53:00 | Its not that high. Lucky, you didnt install MS's security essentials. It'll be going to 100% ! | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 846743 | 2010-01-14 20:14:00 | Pretty weird, Steve. Have you tried it in safe mode? msconfig has options for clean starts so that might be useful for diagnostics, as well. | linw (53) | ||
| 846744 | 2010-01-14 20:23:00 | services . exe starts and stops services so its excessive use of resources suggests either a problem with one or more services or its being taken over by a trojan (yes, I know you have scanned for baddies!) . The real services . exe is in the system32 folder and is NOT started from the run command in the registry . Bogus files may be in the windows folder . Just something to check for! |
linw (53) | ||
| 846745 | 2010-01-14 20:38:00 | Speedy - it IS high. Remember my pc is bogged down and runs slow when the pagefile is high. linw - I have tweaked msconfig and other start up processes using Admin Tools > Services. Not sure what starting in Safe Mode would accomplish. Here are the locations of services.exe on my pc: www.imagef1.net.nz ...however I am not sure if AvaFind would locate it if the location was embedded somewhere in the Registry? Another malware scan: Yes, I will do this. I have Spyware Terminator and a few others that I will enable. I may even splurge and pay$$ to get Nod32. Any other ideas are welcome. Thanks. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 846746 | 2010-01-14 20:40:00 | Get more ram them | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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