When ever I leave my desktop gaming machine and let it be idle long enough so that the screen turns off, I notice that it starts to become VERY ACTIVE! Soon as I move the mouse, the computer stops being so "active". The HDD is being continously paged and the CPU is being utilized to the point where I can really hear it spin up (is overclocked so when there is 100% utilization, it gets loud). I have kaspersky Antivirus so I'm not sure if that is it and I've checked to see if there were any processes that I was not familiar with that were running in the background but I can find nothing. Any idea on how I can spot which process is doing this/why!?
Computer is VERY active while idle...
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How do you identify the processes? If through task manager then unfortunately this tool tells you nothing, its cosmetics like a lot of windows utilities.
Download winpatrol 9.1 from http://www.winpatrol.com/
I use this neat little tool, the one that Microsoft couldn't be bothered to include, that gives you a very extensive information and control over processes AND, a bonus, it notifies you when a process is being added by malware or spyware.
This little tool enabled me to identify how someone had violated my privacy on my computer by showing me that a secondary logon session had been started with the svchost dll.
Task manager lists the svchost as a generic but not the specific sessions that employ its services.
All these things should have been supplied with Xp, Bill Gates is just a lazy old fart.
Download winpatrol 9.1 from http://www.winpatrol.com/
I use this neat little tool, the one that Microsoft couldn't be bothered to include, that gives you a very extensive information and control over processes AND, a bonus, it notifies you when a process is being added by malware or spyware.
This little tool enabled me to identify how someone had violated my privacy on my computer by showing me that a secondary logon session had been started with the svchost dll.
Task manager lists the svchost as a generic but not the specific sessions that employ its services.
All these things should have been supplied with Xp, Bill Gates is just a lazy old fart.
scan online...
www.trendmicro.com
www.pandasoftware.com/onlinescan/
also do u have any program turned on to run when screen saver starts? such as a defrag program? maybe thats it
post bakc tell us how it went...
www.trendmicro.com
www.pandasoftware.com/onlinescan/
also do u have any program turned on to run when screen saver starts? such as a defrag program? maybe thats it
post bakc tell us how it went...
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MY XP home machine does that exact same thing. Make sure your virus scanner isn't set to scan in the background (although that should only use at most 50% CPU), and try turning off all startup services, rebooting, and seeing if the behavior is still present.
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