# CPU Usage way too high **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [November 2, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420 "2003-11-02T01:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/1 "2003-11-02T01:08:53Z")
Sorry to start another thread today but I have a wierd question. My computer usually uses less that 10% of the CPU when I’m just running a couple programs. Now it’s goin anywhere from 35% to 50% and all I have open is AIM, Kazaa, and IE… so is there anything that would all of a sudden just break my computer like that? I haven’t installed anything recently or anything. No clue what’s goin on, hoping one of you guys might. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/2 "2003-11-02T01:10:37Z")
adware/spyware maybe also, my wmp 9 doesn’t work very well and eats up 95 percent cpu or so until i ctrl alt del it and close the process (even after the prog itself is closed) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/3 "2003-11-02T01:11:48Z")
hmmm, I’ll do a virus check, good idea. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/4 "2003-11-02T01:13:25Z")
not just viruses, run adaware/spybot in adition to ur antivirus ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/5 "2003-11-02T01:15:24Z")
yeah I did spybot, removed a couple things, didn’t really change much though. Hmm ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/6 "2003-11-02T01:16:36Z")
what AV are you using? Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/7 "2003-11-02T01:21:55Z")
Kazaa is crap man throw dat $hit out da winda it has tons of ad/spyware plus on top it really sucks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/8 "2003-11-02T01:22:30Z")
yeah, get kazaa lite k++ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/9 "2003-11-02T01:25:02Z")
actually I have kazaa lite k++… no adware or anything like that that I haven’t gotten rid of. Still confused… hmmm ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/10 "2003-11-02T01:30:16Z")
are you using AVG? if not, go to [grisoft.com](http://grisoft.com) and d/l it… Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/11 "2003-11-02T01:31:44Z")
alright, thanks rev ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/12 "2003-11-02T01:46:32Z")
I had a virus that using cpu big time… I had norton running, but AVG caught the virus… Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/13 "2003-11-02T01:54:15Z")
I got avg, didn’t catch anything Turned out that it’s kazaa doing it. I don’t understand why or how, but I guess it just does it. Thanks for the help guys ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/14 "2003-11-02T01:56:50Z")
Told ya any p2p appt out there is crap like ive said b4 ftp, mirc n bittorrent all da way baby :evil: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/15 "2003-11-02T06:21:30Z")
hm hm my bro’s been having the same problem…he never told me that he keeps kazaa open tho, but then again he doesnt normally tell me everything unless i ask. (btw grim, couldn’t help but notice that you are reaching your 1337 post…) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/16 "2003-11-02T08:01:23Z")
I had a similar problem… although my CPu was like 70-100 :beam: and it came out it was MSN messenger that di this, I reinstalled and got rid of the problem and the next day it was back but not in the form of MSN messenger… I scanned with everything, found a couple of viruses and stuff and now it’s ok but a good way to determine what’s doing it is close all programs, open up task manager and start ending processes one by one while checking the CPU usage after you end one (end unknown ones before ;)) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/17 "2003-11-02T13:22:13Z")
> \*Originally posted by hsadan \* > \*\* > (btw grim, couldn’t help but notice that you are reaching your 1337 post…) \*\* is that a good thing or a bad thing??? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/18 "2003-11-02T13:35:25Z")
[SIZE=6] **1337** [/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/19 "2003-11-02T13:40:38Z")
Whats so special about it??? you people sure are wacky :run: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420/20 "2003-11-02T13:47:25Z")
> \*Originally posted by grimdeath \* > \*\*Whats so special about it??? you people sure are wacky :run: \*\* Arrrghh! You ruined it now! Ⓜ j/k :crazy: [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cpu-usage-way-too-high/34420.md?page=2)