Need computer help

[wa2fastcamaro]

My work computer is being a pain latley. Last few days its been running really slow and now today it is so slow that I can't even get anyhting done. Takes minutes to open a program when it only took seconds before. I opened task manager to close all the processes that were no needed and that didn't help. The system process keeps running 99% cpu usage.

My computer is a E machine T2984 with a 340 Celeron processor and 512 Ram.

Any help on what to do would be nice. I have lots of stuff on there I do not want to lose so a complete system restore is out of the question.

Any way I can figure out whats slowing it down?

Mike

[PSiedTSi]

what process is stealing the processor?

[wa2fastcamaro]

PSiedTSi wrote:
what process is stealing the processor?

Well when you have the task manager open its the process labeled System.

[Guest]

sounds like a virus or spyware/adware. Either way, you can scan for free @ housecall.antivirus.com

[PSiedTSi]

its prolly a virus that has taken over a process...i have the same process but its only using 32k of memory and 0% processor...

[Raider]

I always run ad-aware and spybot then do a scan with AVG anti virus and usually get all the shit out of the pc's...just did it today on a pc here at work and found 2 virus's that Norton didnt detect

[HoboKamera]

i would recommend running a scan with norton corporate on a 3rd party computer. also run a scan with spybot, adaware, spysweeper, and microsoft anti-spyware. then after those have finished, put the hard drive back into the original computer, and install all the listed above products. then run the scan again to remove all the remaining traces that could not be removed on the 3rd party computer due to the fact that they were not active in memory at the time of the scan. if you can't get your hands on a copy of norton corporate, use norton anti-virus 2006. it has the best features of any of the non-corporate anti-viruses out there. as for avg, i personally think it's a POS. it does not detect most viruses that i have run across. if you don't want to spend money on anything, you can try the trendmicro online anti-virus scan like was posted above, but i haven't been too impressed with that either. if you want me to help you this weekend with it send me a PM.

[Raider]

I have removed more viruses with AVG on work/personal pc's then with Norton.... but thats my experience

[wa2fastcamaro]

Well i finally got adaware to run and it picked up like 75 things, and killed them. Took like a hour but whatever the problem was, its working much better now.

[lord_deastofact]

hey man, sounds like you just need to do some standard maintence. you said you already have ada-ware. I would suggest also getting spybot. between the two you get rid of pretty much all the spyware. but they do like to try and delete eachother. also a few other maintence things would be to run a disk cleanup(doesn't do much but doesn't hurt to try it) and then defrag your system. that will prolly take acoupel hours if you have a slow pc with alot of stuff on the hard drive. so just set it to defrag and go home at the end of the night.

as for the "system idle process's" they are part of windows, a buddy and I looked them up awhile back and it's windows using your free CPU time to defragment files in the back ground. so I wouldn't try to delete that. with those few simple things you should be back up to speed, maybe do em acouple times over the next week or so and you're computer will run nice again.