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carl43m
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I have been having issues when running my XP laptop. I constantly see
Iexplore.exe using 90% to 100% of my cpu. I had 1GB of ram. This happens
even if I have not been running any other programs--just one browser window
open. The usage goes down for a bit and then spikes up again. Today I
bought another GB of ram bring the pc up to 2 GB. Even though I have doubled
the Ram I still see these 100% spikes. I closed the browser and was just
running a video game and it spiked up and down to 100%. I have tried
googeling this issue but found nothing. One person was having a similar
problem and thought their fan was broken and the cpu was using a lot of
process capability. But nothing conclusive. I have zone alarm which is a
good security suite and it has not identified any issues virus or malware. I
went to my desktop which has vista and ran the same video game and had my
browser open and cpu usage never went above 14%. Granted I have 4GB of Ram
on the vista machine but 15% of 4GB is only .6 GB and and I have 2GB on the
laptop.
Does anyone have any suggestion? I had heard that possibly there might be
some services running in the background that I may not need but I have no
idea how to find them or then to figure out which ones are needed.
Thanks.
Carl
Iexplore.exe using 90% to 100% of my cpu. I had 1GB of ram. This happens
even if I have not been running any other programs--just one browser window
open. The usage goes down for a bit and then spikes up again. Today I
bought another GB of ram bring the pc up to 2 GB. Even though I have doubled
the Ram I still see these 100% spikes. I closed the browser and was just
running a video game and it spiked up and down to 100%. I have tried
googeling this issue but found nothing. One person was having a similar
problem and thought their fan was broken and the cpu was using a lot of
process capability. But nothing conclusive. I have zone alarm which is a
good security suite and it has not identified any issues virus or malware. I
went to my desktop which has vista and ran the same video game and had my
browser open and cpu usage never went above 14%. Granted I have 4GB of Ram
on the vista machine but 15% of 4GB is only .6 GB and and I have 2GB on the
laptop.
Does anyone have any suggestion? I had heard that possibly there might be
some services running in the background that I may not need but I have no
idea how to find them or then to figure out which ones are needed.
Thanks.
Carl