in the choices of the first dropdown choose PID, then in the second choose "is" and put the PID # in the third then "include" in the fourth and hit add, then you want to change the "is" to "isnt" and the "include" to "exclude" then hit add again. the one thats using up all the cpu, get the PID of it, and open the ProcMon and at the top select "filter" click it then "filter" again. You should use Proccess Explorer first, run it and see where the CPU usage is happening, then use sysinternals ProcMon when you have Proccess explorer opened, there will be a column that list the PID of each proccess. system requirements? Readme: Older ATI, Intel onboard graphics, or NVIDIA graphics cards on Windows 7 Windows 7 tips - JoelbX Hello! Please reply back, promptly if possible with the results to solutions to your problem! Curious about Win7 min.
Any other thoughts? Have you tried running CCleaner ( ) to get rid of junk files and junk registry keys? Can you post the running processes (or upload a screenshot of it to your skydrive (free, go to )) from Sysinternals' Process Explorer ? Can you post the apps set to start at boot (or upload screenshot again) with sysinternals' Autoruns ? I take it uninstalling the modem driver didn't help either. That's okay, that just helps to see what exact hardware it is. That is exactly what I did, all it came up with is drivers for it, I wanted the specs/info on it, not drivers for it! Unfortunately, I uninstalled the modem driver in Device Manager before I read the rest of comments, so I could not get the vendor/hardware details. OK, take it out already! If you cut and paste the modem info from above, Google gives you >7,000 hits - many from Dell. It is a real modem and internal in the computer. I would rather not re-install XP, although I have (of course) backed up the c:drive). (COULD NOT PASTE)Ĭan someone please offer some other tips. As you can see there are a lot of applications running and I hope this can provide a clue. I have pasted the Processes Tab from Task Manager, soon after start up below. I am not connected to a network and checked that this was disabled (another post suggestion).
I even tried to lower the screen resolution (from 1440x900 to 1280x768 and even lower) based on a post that pointed to a video card issue. If I open My Computer or Control Panel, the scanning flashlight appears and it takes quite some time for the programs and files to appear. The icons on the desktop do refresh constantly almost with every mouse click. For a while it seemed that explorer.exe was running all the time, so I used the Windows Process Monitor to look at the process tree for explorer.exe to see what was running and made sure that all applications were located in the correct directories and were approx the correct size. The CPU is almost always running at 100%. I then monitored the computer performance using the Windows Task Manager.
I have run a registry cleaner after every set of changes. I also disabled non-essential services also using msconfig. I also used the msconfig to disable all non-essential (I believed – but stayed on the safe side if I wasn't pretty sure) applications from the start-up. I ran four different anti-virus programs (all showed no infections), added and ran Spybot (no problems detected). I went through the usual process – chkdsk, defrag, memory checks, verifier. This slow performance only occurred after I solved the BSoD.
We got another BSoD, which I diagnosed to a modem problem, and cured that by disabling the modem, which we don't use.Īfter getting the computer back to working order (no BSoBs now – touch wood), our computer has gotten extremely slow. With help from the MS Tech Center>Forums community posts, I diagnosed the problem, using the Windows Debugger, to a touch pad driver, which was cured by installing an updated driver. I have Windows XP Media Center Edition updated with Service Pack 3 BIOS Revision A04.Ī few months ago, we started getting the Blue Screen of Death, with increasing regularity and finally it became a real problem. We have a Dell Inspiron I 9300 with a Pentium M processor running at 1,73 GHz with 1 GB RAM.