mick76
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Hi there, i have a problem with cpu usage it only started recently. Something seems to be running that i can't see in the task manager and it's taking up a lot of cpu usage. Say i have a normally low cpu usage app running like alcohol 120 or winrar they normally only use a few percent but it goes upto 100% and everything starts to freeze even turning firefox on does it like now i can see that firefox is only using 7% and nothing else is taking up any cpu but it's upto 100% and running really slow. Winrar takes like 10 minutes to unrar a 700MB movie when before it took less than a minute. Even running word freezes the pc.
This computer has athlon 3500 running xp and it's normally pretty quick running apps even a few at once but now if i try to burn a dvd using ashampoo and use the internet at the same time it comes to a standstill! And encoding a movie has gone from 30 minutes to over 3 hours.
I had a fragment problem as my hdd was full and i had 120,000 fragments but deleted 25% of hdd and defragged it now i have only a few hundred fragments even though diskeeper reports also that i have 79% data and 64% volume fragmentation and in the file structure display its nearly all red and red is for fragmented but in the file performance display its nearly all blue for high performing files!
I haven't got a clue but something is seriously affecting the performance of this pc can anybody please help?
I have given as much info as ive got and it didn't start after installing a new app also doing a restore doesn't make any difference and there aren't any viruses that i can find.
I didn't know if this is part of the same problem but when ive done a search in google and open the link it goes to a different page like ads or porn it sometimes does it a few times before getting to the right page. Also i get a ton of pages coming up when i use sites like mediafire like with one link i get 5 pages even though im running ad-aware, stopzilla, avast a/v and sygate firewall.
Thanks for any help
