Belay my last. I found the thread on 100% CPU Utilization...duh. I also
found the reference to Process Explorer. I will use this and report back.
"keesue" wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have Vista Premium running on a Dell PC with 4 gig Ram. I have spyware,
> antivirus (Mcafee) installed with Visa firewall. The system is fairly
> generic with Office. The CPU utilization usually sits at less than 5%, with
> only Outlook running as an active application. I have experienced a random
> 100% CPU utilization for no apparent reason. I am able to get task manager
> to load and the CPU utilization adds up to less than 50% (on average during
> this event).
>
> I have checked all start up programs, all running services and everything
> appears to be normal. My question is not necessarily what could cause this,
> although I welcome any suggestions; but where else to look to investigate to
> further diagnose the problem?
>
> I have all updates applied. I suspected the video driver because this is so
> fundamental but it passes diganostics; whether that is conclusive or not is
> another issue. I feel my suspicion is supported by the fact that the
> difference between the resource utilization statistics in TaskMgr and 100%
> are so stark.
>
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Can someone steer me to