you can raise the GDI objects up so the warning doesn't popup...

The main thing would be to click on the CPU tab at the top where the real time stat's are displayed.

It *will* show you exactly what is actively hitting the CPU, from highest to lowest moving down the list.

Once you know that, you can highlight the specific task, and in the lower right hand display pain you can click the different tabs to find out more info on that specific task. Also "svchost" info for exactly what tasks is running under svchost is viewable.

If you fear a Trojan, you can look to the top right hand pain and click the "Connections" tab and then click "remote" to see what IP addresses you've a connection with if any and local to see what is actually accessing the Internet (or network)..

Jafo, you're correct about helping and being conservative...

Reason this is my last post on the subject of support...
It can and does it way out of whack when 50 people are saying different things, or repeating the same thing 50 different ways...

Oops, I ment to say....Gary thinks he's sooo smart.

Reason this is my last post on the subject of support...

John...you have to keep posting...

...you're the only one that's up 24/7

China - same thing

eh, insomnia is a beautiful thing NOT!

besides, I'd much rather play

Gary, What is it that you do for a living?

What makes you think I do anything?

Ah dabe, just an observation that the "expert" who said NAV was "better" than Kaspersky really was no expert at all, at least not much up on AV's and security stuff. I don't use KAV myself but if you still have it available and were previously using it without any issues, I'd suggest dumping NAV and reinstalling KAV.

Also, recently there have been an increasing number of reports of issues with some Symantec products, Live Update, etc. Not by the usual critics and moaners I should note: even some longtime Symantec users/adherents are jumping ship.

But you may also have something else going on as well, so let us know how it goes.

I think I found the problem. It was ObjectDock. For some reason, it was using over one thousand, as in THOUSAND GDI objects. That's ridiculous. I don't know why it climbed so high, but after shutting down and restarting, which I've already done a zillion times, it's now using only 135 GDI objects. Now, let's see if it stays down. NAV seems to be behaving, as is DX (which sometimes gives me problems). Believe it or not, TaskInfo really helped me track it down. It is a great program, even if I don't understand everything. I still don't know what happened, and I don't know if it will happen again, but I have a new tool to help me now.

Thank you, thank you, thank you My hat's off to you. You're a great team, in spite of some minor bickering. *keeping my fingers crossed*

I dunno...Just wonderin'

I own a computer company..


dabe - that's an on going problem with OD...several times a day you need to close and re-start it to keep the handle count down. It's an issue that they know about and hopefully will be resolved in the near future.

It sounds to me like you have more than one AV program installed. That could be a big problem. Zone Alarm and Norton also have known conflicts. More than one firewall could also cause problems. Once you limit yourself to one firewall and one AV program, you might see a big diffence. AV programs are constantly running in the background. And if you have two competing, and conflicting with each other, this would describe your problem. If you must have Zone Alarm over Norton Personal Firewall or Norton Internet professional, then I would get rid of Norton AV.(Although Norton is the best)

I would first run Spybot search and destroy to see if you have spyware. That would definitely cause the problem. Spybot is free.I would shut down all AV programs before installing Spybot. AV programs are known to cause problems with installations. Then, I would install and run Spybot. If your system is clean of spyware, then I would uninstall all your firewalls and AV programs. You have too many running that do the same thing.

Once you uninstall all the firewalls and AV programs, I would clean the registry of their traces. Then I would delete their directories.

This should fix your problem. Then, I would install one virus program. After reboot see if you develop lag again. This will help you to troubleshoot where the conflict is coming from. Remember... ONE AV and ONE firewall. Good Luck.

Chas....yer a bit late.....probably one of those page refreshing issues again....

I think the problem is you have your computer on. turn it off and you should notice a remarkable less amount of cpu and memory usage.

Chas....Zone Alarm is a firewall, NAV (Norton AntiVirus)is an AV. Where do you get he's running two AV's or two firewalls?

At any rate, you missed the party. He's determined that Object Dock is what was hogging his PC.
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Ahh, thought so. What company?

Oh I dunno, for everyone that has problems with Symantec , there are just as many who do not, more in fact.

The thing you need to do is find the tools that work correctly for you on your specific system and stick with them.

I have yet to be hit with a Virus, Worm, Trojan or anything else with NIS Pro installed since the product hit the market and am running NIS Pro 2004 at this moment on every desktop and laptop on our network and on our client networks. The only time there was any issue in the past was the fault of IT tech's not doing their job and staying on top of updates and pushing them out to the client systems on their local systems.

I got hit with MSblast...sill not sure how I got it Anyways... You can never be too careful. But to blame Object Dock is just funny

...I gave it to ya...

You wish

Yeah


...Just saw your question in #40...the name is Miles Enterprises...use to be different when it was just a high end PC and Network computer maker, but since my son took over it's gone in 15 different directions. About now, I don't care what he calls it...just so I get my cut

Eek....'M&M Enterprises'....sounds like something from Catch 22....

the really funny thing is we both have the same middle name and M&M is what he wanted to change it to ....eekkkkkkkkkkk

Never heard of it....than again, I had no idea you had any kids. Tell us more about you

One Company rule we have is: Do not do business with anyone in Washington State.
As for all the other lurid details.........forget it

What's wrong with WS?

Mmkay, you shall remain a Mystery...for now