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    cpu jumping everywhere

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ElectRo`, Aug 29, 2008.

  1. ElectRo`

    ElectRo` Notebook Enthusiast

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    well was working on dual booting linux when out of no where the computer freezes when partitioning. So i deleted the partition left it as unallocated space and reformated vista again :mad: Now the cpu is jumping everywhere. Nothing on the process list is showing high amounts of cpu usage

    acer aspire 5920 - 2gigs ram - 1.5 cpu - 8600mGT
     

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    1.did you check the all users process button ?
    2. you can open the resource monitor (you can see it in your picture) and configure it to show what uses your cpu.
     
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    Go into processes -> Click on the CPU tab to arrange all processes in deceasing order of CPU usage and check 'Show processes from all users', at the bottom of tskmgr.
     
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    trustedinstaller.exe
    system idle process
    svchost.exe

    its not letting me download / install my updates. I let it run for an hour and it still says 0kb total , 0% complete

    same with trying to install when shutting down it said installin 38 updates 1 of 38 and it just stayed there
     
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    Go into the Services tab, and click on PID (one or twice) to get all the running services at the top/beginning.
    Then go back into the processes windows, and right-click on the 1st and 3rd service above ^ (one at a time), and then click on 'Goto Services'....Then see which services are highlighted for each process.

    SVCHOST normally goes high when you are running windows updates, no idea about trusted installer - could be dangerous for the system !!
     
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