apparent cpu filling virus?.

[BBegemott]

Have you tried installing Ad-aware in Safe Mode? Does your computer freezes anyway?

Safe mode loads only the most necessary proceses.Installing programs/virus upgrades in safe mode helped me several times while fighting viruses.

[DavidG]

This propbably won't help but I notice you run word. On my computer at work I have a problem where even though I close Word it seems to keep running in the background sucking up all my CPU. I have to Crl-alt-del then find 'windword.exe' and End Task on it.

[Randallw]

I tried msconfig. disabled all the startups one by one. Still have problem.
I keep task manager open and close the processes that say they are using 99% of the cpu.
I have tried safe mode, still have the problem.
In regedit there is a default whose value is not set. I assume thats a default setting so I havn't touched it, could it be the problem.
I can still get outlook express to open, and it downloads my mail. But If I try to read my mail then it freezes.
So far things that cause the freeze are, reading mail in outlook express, OSA.exe, and pc-cillin programs, although sometimes pccillin keeps running because I don't have to close all its processes. Also cwshredder, which ran once when I downloaded it, freezes the cpu.
Its more of an annoyance than anything else. I can access my day to day stuff (apart from my IP mail, which at least is being stored so I'm not losing it)

[ March 14, 2004, 02:39: Message edited by: Randallw ]

[Azselendor]

Unplug all the USB devices you can and see what that does, I talked to my friends across the street, they had a problem where thier CPU was getting drained by USB devices.

I suspect it wouldn't hurt to uninstall any software relating to your USB devices - if you can reinstall it later.

[Randallw]

I unplugged my scanner and modem. It didn't make a difference.
I don't know if its relevant but I tried opening a word document and got,

Word document is locked for editing by "another user"

might this have something to do with my problem?.

edit: also the "normel" template is missing and when I try to save it, it says document being used elsewhere.

[ March 14, 2004, 10:19: Message edited by: Randallw ]

[Randallw]

For anyone interested. I got the computer fixed. My friend had to reinstall windows but at least everything works now. Including the national telecom IP which insists it aint installed properly, which I just ignore.

[Atrocities]

Windows is just plain evil. Nuff said.