Services.Exe casuing Huge CPU & RAM Use

Hi folks,

I think I might have to do Fresh install of my OS on my laptop.
I have a Gateway M-6862 laptop with Vista Home Prem., SP1, 64-Bit.

Q1: Now, I have the choice of reinstalling it with 64-Bit OR the 32-Bit version.

Here is my porblem ...

I just recently had to Fix my Corrupted User's Profile per Windows Help ... and that fixed my Problem of "High CPU (50%) use due to Opening of the Windows Explore Function" ... you know the Folder deal. That fixed my problem and the laptop was running smoothly.

BTW, prior to above Fix I also decided to Remove "Sun Microsystem Java JRE version 6 Update 14" because I thought that was part of the reason that my Profile got clubbered by some Intrusive websites.

Yesterday, in my wisdom I decided to install the latest "Sun Microsystem Java JRE version 6 Update 16" and my laptop went Crazy ... some websites start opening like crazy and my CPU's went 50 to 80% use and my fan start going like crazy ... my RAM usage jumped from normal 1.4GB to 3.0GB to 3.9GB constantly ... and never dropped back.

So, when I tried to see what is causing this usage ... "Windows Task Manager" in Normal View showed nothing ... but when I chose the Option to show "The Processes for ALL Users" ... it hsoed that under System 32, the "Services.Exe" was running at 35% and the weird part for was to see that "System Idle Process" function was running at 50%.

BTW, I have ran Antivirus Scans (Avira Full Scan, MBAM, IOBit Security 360) ... so I think my problem is Not Virus problem.

Q2: Can I fix this problem without a Clean Install? Since I don't want to lose my Freebie Trial Softwares.

Q3: Any thoughts what caused this major problem?

Q4: Does a PC have any need to have screwey Sun's JAVA software on it?

Thanks,

G!

 

JAVA is basically used by Firefox and IE(I am not sure about IE).
JAVA can cause the Firefox goes crazy and used 70-90% CPU usage and a large portion of RAM. So, I used Google Chrome now.
I don't have an actual solution for this.
But I think it have something to do with DEP as well.

Solution DEP tweaking(you can try but I don't know if it works):
Open your Command Prompt(CMD) by Administrator.
Key-in "bcdedit.exe /set nx AlwaysOn". Please don't use the "".
If the problem still exist, you can try key-in "bcdedit.exe /set nx AlwaysOff".
If the problem still exist, key-in "bcdedit.exe /set nx OptIn". This will make the DEP goes back to Default.

 

Q1: Services.exe may have gotten into a loop or something trying to start a Java service or something. Or perhaps an on-demand scanner? As for the System Idle Process, 50% means that 50% of your CPU cycles are unused. As your CPU has less work, the System Idle Process will use a higher percentage of CPU. So if your processor is doing almost nothing you should expect the System Idle Process to show 95-99% or so.
Q2: Your freebie software trials quite possibly are the things installing crap into the services that you don't need, that are making your CPU usage go flaky. Installing all kinds of random things is a great way to make Windows start failing.
Q3: Possibly a service installed by Java, or one of your other freebie programs. It's very hard to tell. Java works fine on all my computers, so I'm not inclined to point the finger directly at it.
Q4: No, they don't need to have Java unless you want to run Java apps or applets.

 

Hi DarkSilver & Pitabred,

THANKS for your replies and Help!

I ended up doing a Restore from D Partition ... in a way I am glad I did ... starting CLEAN again ... the only thing I lost 2 Freebie Games that I enjoyed when I played them from time to time.

Thanks again guys!

G!