Processor running at 100% all the time

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You mean you did a system restore?

Sensible I suppose.

My machine has been rebooting recently I might try that myself.

Can't do any harm.
 
Hi Aximilator

Glad you got things sorted out.

I was also going to recommend the following re: your Pagefile, which you might still want to do to improve performance under XP

Optionally, first remove system junk files (e.g. using CCleaner or other other tool of choice. Tho you might want to check CCleaner options so as not to delete all your cookies)

Then do a normal disk defrag. When it completes, run Pagedefrag. Note that normal disk defrags do NOT defrag your pagefile.. so running Pagedefrag for XP may also help tweak performance
 
"CCleaner and Pagedefrag"
I use Piriform CCleaner and defraggler are the above better than my software?

"Page file" Is fine i set it a little higher, it was on the lower side.

"You mean you did a system restore?"
No, i just used "Revo Uninstaller" and i uninstalled a lot of my programs and reinstalled them. Like all the visual graphics programs i reinstalled them and it runs much better some one had to have been corrupt.
 
Hey, pretty much the same thing here. I uninstalled a program that wasn't even being used and my CPU usage went back to normal.

I just recently had this issue with my CPU sticking at 100%. AVG was the only thing eating up my processor, but it wasn't any different than it was when I first installed it a few months ago. I uninstalled one of my programs (hotspot shield) that wasn't even running (just figured it was a waste on my hard drive as I wasn't even using it) and as soon as it uninstalled...CPU usage drop WAY down...back to normal.

So it turned out that a program that wasn't even running (even in task manager it wasn't using cpu) was causing my CPU to spike...I still don't understand it. A few days ago crash doctor told me the program had crashed and couldn't fix it and after I got rid of crash doctor (it wouldn't go away, it would keep popping up on the screen when I closed it, constantly telling me the program crashed and couldn't be recovered) the CPU started spiking.

So I guess my advice is when your CPU starts spiking and sticking at 100%, check all your programs and make sure they're running right. I'm not even sure what happened to Hotspot Shield, but that one program I didn't even use (even removed it from the startup folder) was causing my system to stick at 100%.
 
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