Hi I am running Win XP and of late the CPU is floating around 70 - 80 percent, causing the machine to run very slow, when it feels like doing anything. I have read that this might be related to the Svchost.exe going daft or something to do with SP3. Has anyone had similar problems or any advice please

Thank you for your thoughts on this, the problem is happening without any but the nost basic of programs running ie just one at start up will have the CPU up to 100%. I have run a deep scan with Kaspersky and also spybot all to no avail, I double the RAM just in case but this has not had any effect on the CPU usage.

Hi whs after a 14 hour malware scan I have this program on board, it shows 100 % at the top but very few things more than say 4.7 running. I dont expect there is a magic solution to this other than perhaps a complete reload of everything, but am willing to try any suggestions anyone might have. Thank you

At the top, do you mean SYSTEM FREE PROCESS in Process Explorer? If so, not much is running? How did you determine the CPU was being used by 70 - 80% may I ask?

LH, I too initially was thinking it could be Indexing, but that usually will hinder disk access and after a short period of time stop as it completes so I didn't think that was it?

OP said he added memory, and it didn't help, so the problem isn't low memory and swapping.

Irv S.

HI all. LH can you guide trough turning off indexing on drives, I have to admit reading all your comments the biggest user of resorces seems to be Kaspersky but I have tried disabling this without a lot of improvment. Thank you all for your guidance so far.

Thanks for that link Matt very interesting site, I think after a couple more deep scans it is about the best it's going to get it is now floating around the 23% mark with just the odd jump to 100% very briefly. So once again a Big Thank You to all who have viewed and helped. What a wounderful site. Cheers Danny