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hi everybody,
i just reinstalled windowblinds today. i was having a problem a couple months ago: my cpu use would suddenly jump to 100%, stay there for several seconds, and then drop; a few seconds of rest, and then jump again. i read a lot about the issue on the internet, and all signs pointed to virus. i scanned and scanned, and came up with nothing. so, being the compulsive person i am, i wiped and reinstalled windows.
over the past few weeks, i've been slowly but steadily reinstalling the programs i used to have, keeping an eye out for this problem. today, i reinstalled wb, and the problem came back, immediately! if that doesn't isolate the cause, i don't know what would. (i also installed object edit, but haven't actually used it yet.)
(i left out one step: i also use litestep; after i wiped, i first reinstalled everything *except* litestep, because i got the sense that it was the problem, but it started happening anyway. so i wiped again, and started over, more slowly this time.)
if i end the offending instance of svchost.exe (there are several, which understand to be normal, and all but one are perfectly fine), things get a little funky, and wb stops working.
this is my laptop: 1.3ghz; 1g ram; 64mb video card. (this was also happening on my desktop, which i also wiped: 3.2ghz; 1g ram; 128mb video card. the desktop now has a 256mb video card in it, but i haven't put wb on it yet--i'm more cautious with that machine, because it's my work machine.) i use windows xp pro sp2 for an os, and mcafee and windows defender for protection.
any ideas for what i can do? would dropping to wb 4 help?
thanks,
autrui
i just reinstalled windowblinds today. i was having a problem a couple months ago: my cpu use would suddenly jump to 100%, stay there for several seconds, and then drop; a few seconds of rest, and then jump again. i read a lot about the issue on the internet, and all signs pointed to virus. i scanned and scanned, and came up with nothing. so, being the compulsive person i am, i wiped and reinstalled windows.
over the past few weeks, i've been slowly but steadily reinstalling the programs i used to have, keeping an eye out for this problem. today, i reinstalled wb, and the problem came back, immediately! if that doesn't isolate the cause, i don't know what would. (i also installed object edit, but haven't actually used it yet.)
(i left out one step: i also use litestep; after i wiped, i first reinstalled everything *except* litestep, because i got the sense that it was the problem, but it started happening anyway. so i wiped again, and started over, more slowly this time.)
if i end the offending instance of svchost.exe (there are several, which understand to be normal, and all but one are perfectly fine), things get a little funky, and wb stops working.
this is my laptop: 1.3ghz; 1g ram; 64mb video card. (this was also happening on my desktop, which i also wiped: 3.2ghz; 1g ram; 128mb video card. the desktop now has a 256mb video card in it, but i haven't put wb on it yet--i'm more cautious with that machine, because it's my work machine.) i use windows xp pro sp2 for an os, and mcafee and windows defender for protection.
any ideas for what i can do? would dropping to wb 4 help?
thanks,
autrui
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