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    Acer TM 8104: Monitor.exe takes 80-90% CPU resources...

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by SasCPT, Mar 26, 2008.

  1. SasCPT

    SasCPT Notebook Enthusiast

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    I recently had a Windows XP registry crash and so needed to restore my
    XP installation from the Acer supplied recovery CDs. The problem now
    is however that the Acer application "Monitor.exe" is taking up as much
    as 90% of the CPU! I have to terminate it each time as the system has
    become very unresponsive otherwise. I do have the latest AV (Kaspersky),
    latest firewall (Comodo) and even Spybot running. The problem started
    with the fresh install, on top of that some time later - maybe 2 weeks later
    my monitor's backlight died too.

    Any reason why monitor.exe should be such a resource hog?

    Thanks!
     
    SasCPT, Mar 26, 2008
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    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    that is be cause you ether convert partion to ntfs simply thing to do just find the file and rename it that will fix cpu usage issue

    my guess is you disk to disk recovery partion is gone ? or you converted to ntfs

    if you have recovery disk made i suggest just rename files
     
    andyasselin, Mar 26, 2008
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    My hidden recovery partition is still there and its still as FAT.
    I also had a backup recovery DISK made on DVD with the included
    ACER application - a month before the registry crash - but the
    restore app would not recognise that DVD even though I checked
    it had no errors after I burned it initially. I had to use the factore WinXP
    Pro recovery CDs.

    I renamed the offending file. SO now it doesn't load. Still it was strange
    that it should take so many CPU resources. Oh well...

    Thanks :)
     
    SasCPT, Mar 28, 2008
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