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What application is hogging my CPU?

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Ed Flecko

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Dec 16, 2009, 6:30:52 PM12/16/09
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Sometimes my PC will become so busy that I can't even bring up task
manager to try and see what's hogging my CPU.

Isn't there a way to use Performance Monitor and set a "trigger" for
CPU usage to start a log file of some type to determine what
application(s) are bogging down my PC?

Ed

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Dec 17, 2009, 11:25:28 AM12/17/09
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Open task manager

Sjouke Burry

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Dec 17, 2009, 6:16:02 PM12/17/09
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Open (and leave open) the taskmanager when the computer
is still working properly.
That way, when trouble starts, you can watch the culprit.

Gualtier Malde

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Dec 19, 2009, 9:26:42 PM12/19/09
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Do you have AVG? I had the experience of strange runaway behavior from
avgchsvc.exe. When I got Task Manager up I could see the process CPU time
cycling rapidly and Performance showed a bizarre picture. I took a screen shot.
Find it on ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/c/chuckb/download/AVG_runaway.jpg/

This was in Windows 2000 but something similar has happed in my XP machine

I went in a gave AVG the lowest priority and then Un-checked "Use Heuristics" in
all scans. Seems to be behaving.

Apparently this could have been prevented if I had done a "configuration scan"
on installation.

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