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Anonymous   10-10-2001 at 04:49:45 PM

Any clues as to why my (admittedly old) piii 500 remains at a fairly constant 30-40% processor usage as shown by System Monitor?
This is with all programs closed and I even dumped the entire systray!

just a basic system with
piii500
128Meg
Win98 SE

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njeske   10-10-2001 at 05:19:41 PM
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How long has it been since you reloaded the O.S.?


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Yahiko81   10-10-2001 at 05:23:00 PM
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Have you ran a virus scan?

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btvillarin   10-10-2001 at 06:06:32 PM
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Read <A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q227/1/31.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=1&qry=system monitor kernel processor usage&rnk=2&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W98SE" target="_new">this</A>...

Kernel32.dll error...aw, son of a.... :eek:

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