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threefiftyone8 · 06-06-2003, 04:33

im having some real troubles with my pc recorces being eaten up. mainly just the cpu..... CPU usage will sit at like 4% for about 20 seconds, and then it just jumps to 100% for a few seconds.

heres a picture of what i mean... thanks for your help.

threefiftyone8 · 06-06-2003, 04:36

i seemed to have found the reason. its MSN Messenger. But why would it be doing this? it never used too.

psycho chicken · 06-06-2003, 04:42

Problem is you've got XP, biggest system whore of all. I've only got 382 meg of ram, it's hell I tell you.

As for an answer that might be of some help, I'm no computer guru sorry.

threefiftyone8 · 06-06-2003, 04:52

well i have got 512DDR Ram. but yeah. it think it might be time for a downgrade back to win2k.

psycho chicken · 06-06-2003, 04:55

I tried, XP doesn't let you roll back that easy.

Ah well, even more reason for me to format this thing.

threefiftyone8 · 06-06-2003, 05:00

FORMAT!!!!!

psycho chicken · 06-06-2003, 05:30

Yeah, the F word.....dun dun duuuuunnnnnnnn

Night_Lurker · 06-06-2003, 05:43

Did u upgrade MSN?? Also how many other services and process do u have running. The lastest MSN does suck a bit. Take it out of startup (forgot if u can or not with the new one). Best not to use XP, better freedom with win2k. Or if you want go Gentoo Linux, all is sweet with that.... :)

threefiftyone8 · 06-06-2003, 05:48

Linux seems an attractive possibily.. but its really hard to setup... well redhat is... (used to be).. what a Perplexing Conundrum �

the_wheel_man · 06-06-2003, 06:27

i have xp with 256 pc133 and it runs well it is not a resouce whore on my comp
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