[skypilotpete]

I have an older Toshiba Tecra S3 laptop, and it seems that Services.exe is really slowing everything down. It continually cycles from between 12% to aroung 45% of CPU, and I would like some help to track down what is behind this. I have run Process Explorer, and the CPU reading is next to Services.exe, and none of the svchost.exe or named items below it show any CPU activity at all. When I look at the Services.exe properties, in the "Services" tab, the only one listed is Plug and Play. When I look at "Threads", there are 3 active threads listed, which continually cycle up and down from 0% to around 18%. The only information next to the three active threads is Start Address: kernel32.dll!CreateThread+0x22 . I don't have sufficient knowledge to know how to interpret the information displayed on this page. Can anyone help me?

My System:
Toshiba Tecra S3
Windows XP Pro 2002, SP2
Pentium 1.86Ghz, 800 MHz, 2GB ram.
Windows firewall, Microsoft Security Essentials.
Regular manual scans with Superantispyware, Malwarebytes.

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Edited by rockmilk, 09 March 2012 - 06:49 PM.

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Just DONT us the registry cleaner function of CCleaner unless you know what you are deleting exactly!!

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Hit the start button in lower left hand corner. Then in the run box type msconfig, then hit the services tab then put a check mark in hide microsoft services what is listed there,after hiding microsoft services?Please post back to us in a vertical list.

Please download MINITOOLBOX When the box opens click save file, save it to the desktop and run it.





Checkmark the following boxes:


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List Installed Programs
List Users, Partitions and Memory size
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Edited by rockmilk, 09 March 2012 - 06:49 PM.