Computer Slow

[jshields13]

All of a sudden, my computer is acting strange. There is an intermittent delay when entering text or clicking on something. The only thing I have downloaded is an Earthlink update. I am going to remove and reinstall Earthlink tonight to see if that is the problem. I'm running XP SP1. I've run my spyware programs and virus checkers and found nothing. When I do Ctl-Alt-Del and click on resources, I see that every few seconds the CPU usage spikes to 100% so I assume something is running in the background that is interfering. Can someone give me some suggestions as to how to find and fix this problem.

Thanks in advance.

 

[STK]

In task manager, go to processes, watch to see which process is spikeing. If you don't need the program running, close it.

 

[young&wild]

Whats your computer specs? Can you please fill up your profile with your computer specifications?

Your computer specifications will help us a lot in pin pointing the problem.

 

[BrownPaper]

Look for any suspicious processes that are running under task manager. Sometimes virus scanners don't detect some sneakier trojans and viruses.

 

[jshields13]

Thanks all. Apparantly the problem was the Spyware program from Earthlink running in the background. For some reason it was using all my resources every few minutes. I disabled at start-up through msconfig and now everything seems fine.

 

[nothing1181]

Please Help

I have the SAME problem. i took earthlink total access 2005 off of my computer but it is STILL using 100% CPU usage at all times! how can i see what is "spiking"....?

from waht i can tell is that AIM uses 36,000K of mem....i found this is the process view is task manager. please help. this is happening on both of my computers i installed earthlink total access DSL on.....