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October 5th, 2005 16:00

100% CPU Usage Follow Up

My CPU has been running @ 100% usage with or without open applications.  I have run Mcafee, Spybot,  and Lavasoft and I haven't improved the situation.
I know there are processes I see running in the task manager that aren't familiar but I'm not saavy enough to know what's good vs whats bad...
Any ideas...
 

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October 5th, 2005 19:00

rj in orlando,

Open Task Manager and on the Processes tab click the CPU header to sort that column by ascending values. What process(es) are using a significant amount of CPU cycles (besides System Idle Process)?

October 6th, 2005 11:00

AOLacsd.exe is basically showing 99 with the exception of a few single digit spike for various processes.

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October 6th, 2005 13:00

What you need to do is right click the AOLacsd.exe process in task managaer and shut it down. I'm assuming that you use AOL as your ISP, if not then the AOLacsd.exe has no business on your system and you can search for it on your drive and delete it. This is what i found out about that process:

AOLacsd.exe is a part of the AOL Internet Software and relates to the connection driver, essential to Internet connection. This program is a non-essential system process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.

So according to this you can shut it down and your internet should still function, for whatever reason that file is not behabing properly and is malfunctioning causing it to eat up all your cpu cycles. What you could do is try searching for it and moving it to another loccation, then do a restart and try connecting to the internet. If everything works ok and you don't notice any wierd behaviour and your net works fine then i would just delete the file. If it causes your internet to stop functioning then i would do this at the very least. Put the file back where it came from, restart and right click the process in task manager now select priority and then select Low. This will put this process into a very low priority and it will not allow it to hog the CPU.

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October 8th, 2005 09:00

If it continues to show up and run when not needed (before you make an internet connection) delete it from the startup configuration.

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February 19th, 2006 02:00

I have been having the same problem.  I checked my Task Manager and found that my System Idle Process is running close to 99%.  I don't know what that is and should I end it?  Also, when I am typing something (like this) I have to stop and wait for the words to catch up.  Could this be causing the problem?
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