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Bill - 30 Sep 2003 02:14 GMT

I have Symantec Norton sytem runing and it show the CPU
runing at 100% This is slowing down everything and I cant
run some programs to run. I need suggestions on to to
identify what is running and taking up all the cpu.
Please help this computer novice.

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Bert Kinney - 30 Sep 2003 02:47 GMT

Hi Bill,

WinTop is a tool that can be used to look at the processes
running with the amount of CPU usage for each one.

Download MS- Kernel toys. Click on W95krnltoys.exe file to unzip.
Then click on Wintop.exe. WinTop is safe to use with all versions of
Win98. The Win95 warning refers to some of the other toys.

Every 2 seconds, WinTop recomputes information about the processes running
in the system. As WinTop starts, the numbers may be a bit screwy; wait a
few
seconds for the numbers to settle down.

Let Wintop run, you should be able to see what's causing
the disk to be accessed by looking at CPU usage. With
the system at rest, this should show what program file is
the cause. And its path. Post the program file name here
and we will see if we can figure it out.

Windows 95 Kernel Toys Set with WinTop:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WUToys/W95KernelToy/Default.asp

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Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

> I have Symantec Norton sytem runing and it show the CPU
> runing at 100% This is slowing down everything and I cant
> run some programs to run. I need suggestions on to to
> identify what is running and taking up all the cpu.
> Please help this computer novice.

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