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pjordan   05-07-2003 at 05:08:22 AM

All of a sudden my computer is as slow as molasses. When it should be idleing, it has a 30%-50% cpu utilization. I reformated/reinstalled windows XP, and that didn't solve the problem. It's a 1gz athlon with 512 meg memory.

Any ideas on what could cause the problem? I'm wondering if it could be hardware related, since the problem appears right after a reinstall.

-PaulJ

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jlanka   05-07-2003 at 03:04:38 PM
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look at the task manager to see what is using the CPU

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

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jiffy   05-07-2003 at 03:13:36 PM
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I would see what you have in Processes in task manager.<A HREF="http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm" target="_new">Tasklist</A>

And check <A HREF="http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm" target="_new">here</A> on the services you may have running.

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Anonymous   05-08-2003 at 03:03:48 AM
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Check the bus master on your ide controller.

Goto>
Control_Panel/System/Device_Manager/IDE/Primary_or_Secondary

The "Current transfer mode" should be one of the DMA's.

Solution: Try reinstalling XP on clean install (eeek)or use "Intel Application Accelerator", I spent >4 hours last night with a minor disaster and I used it to get the CPU utilisation down. I had high CPU utilisation when heaps was happening on the desktop and it was caused by disk usage.

*Do not modify registry settings on XP unless you know a way to restore it.

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alltaken   05-08-2003 at 02:45:51 PM
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TweakUI

a power toy for winXP

you can CUT almost every CPU wasting thing, and have a super responsive computer



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