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Aha! look under the third instance of the svchost process, windows update (wuauclt.exe) is running and taking about 30% of your CPU availablility! Try turning automatic updates off and see if it makes a difference.
Click start, control panel, automatic updates and switch it off. You can always download them via
http://www.windowsupdate.com at a time that's suitable for you anyway.
This might have just been coincidence, i.e. Windows update was running and using that amount of CPU at the exact time that you took the screeny but even so, it's got to be worth a try.
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[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2005-10-18 20:36 ]
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Posted: 2005-10-18 21:34:15
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no that doesnt seem to fix it
(still have'nt tired the HD IDE cable yet).
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Posted: 2005-10-18 21:42:17
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Hmmm. I can't see anything in your process explorer screeny that shouldn't be there, so maybe it is a hardware problem after all. What are the specs of your computer? Processor, amount of memory etc?
EDIT: Have you rebooted after turning off automatic updates?
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[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2005-10-18 20:46 ]
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Posted: 2005-10-18 21:45:15
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original post said it ran sluggish and you just done a fresh install did you format the drive first not just copy over the top?
also check the bios make sure that its set to high performance so the multiplier for the chips running as it should, some times they are set lower?
have you added any other hardware graphics card etc?
the windows update in the task list will be there wether auto updates on or not it sadly still pops up and then disappears after a while
i know you said youd ran anti virus checks and spyware but it might be worth downloading ewido its an anti trojan piece of kit and is very good at getting trojan (not a replacement for the other things but a nice addition)
http://www.ewido.net/en/[ This Message was edited by: slattery69 on 2005-10-18 21:03 ]
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Posted: 2005-10-18 21:57:47
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Well the problem did first start soon after installing a radeon 9600 (that’s soon after not straight after). But when I did the fresh install (on a formatted HD) I also put in a 9800 pro and took out the stick of 512 ram it came with and stuck in two 512’s. (there’s only 2 slots on the mobo so no issues with which slots they went in).
The pc is (apart from my girlfriends) a 2ghz Emachine branded pc (brought from pc world… yes I know).
Don’t know what the mobo is, 80gb HD, 1024mb ram, 9800pro.
The only thing I thought it might be was the psu (as I had two use extra power for the 9800pro) but would this effect it this way? As its strange that if I restart it a few times it suddenly works like a dream?
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Posted: 2005-10-18 22:11:11
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Yeah, wuauclt.exe still appears with auto updates off but as you said it shouldn't hang around for long, so maybe that was just coincidence. Besides, on a 2 gig machine with that amount of RAM it shouldn't make a difference anyway, even if it's a Celeron or such like
Does the PC stay sluggish for the entire time that you use it or does it eventually 'settle down'? (without restarting it several times I mean)
Power could be an issue in theory but I seriously doubt it. Usually if you don't give a GPU enough power you get wierd things happening like the PC suddenly restarting itself, rather than slower performance.
Might be worth checking out the AGP aparture size in BIOS and setting it to the same (or higher) value than the amount of memory on your 9800 (256Mb i assume), after loading optimised defaults as Slattery suggested.
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[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2005-10-18 21:26 ]
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Posted: 2005-10-18 22:19:48
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Does the PC stay sluggish for the entire time that you use it or does it eventually 'settle down'? (without restarting it several times I mean)
Yes stays sluggish all the time (unless restarted a few times
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Might be worth checking out the AGP aparture size in BIOS and setting it to the same (or higher) value than the amount of memory on your 9800 (256Mb i assume), after loading optimised defaults as Slattery suggested.
All getting a bit complicated i'll give it a go tho.
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Posted: 2005-10-18 22:34:14
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i would definatly download ewido and run a complete scan using that, its free (apart from if you want the guard but the scanner is more than enough at the moment)
this picks stuff up adaware and anti virus often miss
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Posted: 2005-10-18 23:02:38
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have 1 more problem, i used to be with AOl now have moved to ukonline, and i cant uninstall AOL, it just wont let me, any ideas?
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Posted: 2005-10-19 00:03:15
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what version of aol is it?
did you try to remove it before putting any files from your new provider on?
also i know it may sound like a silly question but did you try to remove it under add/remove programs and click the uninstall option not the repair that comes up.
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Posted: 2005-10-19 15:59:15
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