Help!!!!!!!!!!!

[ingeborgdot]

I am working away on my computer and it hasn't been restarted for awhile so I restarted. When it got past all the startup and started loading the icons it took forever and ever. I looked at the load it was putting in the computer and it is 100% most of the time to all 4 cores. It does go down periodically but I can't get it to stop. I have run a virus check, antispyware checks, disc check. I have my computer running in best performance mode and it is still choppy. Quad core, 4gb or ram. I have had this thing for a year and a half running great. What could it be? I know it could be a thousand things but does anyone have any idea of what to check. Checking the windows task manager in working set memory svchost.exe is kicking mys arse. System idle was almost non existent. Right now for the first time it is at 96 for system idle as I am typing. I will keep on checking but I don't know where to go from here. Could it be memory? Help.

[3Z3VH]

This could be one of a couple things... the easiest to explain is that the machine possibly hasn't had Windows Updates in a long while, and the WUAUCLT.EXE is running through SVCHost to get the updates for your machine from the internet. Try booting up without your network cable plugged in.

Another possibility is that one of your system DLLs got un-registered when you installed some piece of software, and due to the time between reboots, it forgot to re-register it. There has been a batch file script going around that re-registers all the commonly de-reg'd dlls in windows in Windows XP, and you can find it here: http://www.technibble.com/downloads/windows-tools/fix_svchost.bat You just save all that text to a file that ends in .bat and double-click on it, and it will re-register the system dlls for you (much quicker than using Windows SFC) but you ONLY want to use it if you are running XP, not 2003 or Vista.

[ingeborgdot]

Sorry, running vista 64bit. Forgot to say that in my description.

[3Z3VH]

It still could be the first of the two situations I mentioned where it is simply running the Windows Update. Have you let it sit there and grind for a while ? What does the drive activity look like ? In the Performance Monitor of Vista, you can see exactly what files are being accessed frequently, by sorting them by the "Read B/sec" column and see which number is highest. This will usually give you an idea of what program is crunching so hard. At that point it is simply a matter of reinstalling that piece of software, or re-registering the DLLs associated with it.