CPU prob

[quaytec]

AOL is using all my CPU do i have a cpu prob or should i ditch aol

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Well AOL is a big old rambling piece of software Quaytec that does you no favours but how many running programs do you have?

[quaytec]

on task man 30 processes running

[Dalo Harkin]

30 processes is about right - do you have an old CPU?

Can you list the specs - I am guessing you have a little amount of RAM and the CPU is throttling its cache.

[quaytec]

I guess thats about it but that means spending money :eek::(

Athlon XP 2200+

180 ghz

512 Ram

[Dalo Harkin]

Quaytec - 512 'should be enough for just browsing etc and running apps'

if you press CONT+ALT+DEL then task manager, if you click on processes is that the only one using lots of resources?

[quaytec]

yes just waol. Sometimes seems ok though

[GreyCell1988]

if i remember correctly the aol.exe and waol.exe have some other associated processes. try shutting down process by process in the taskmanger and find the process thats making waol.exe take up so much cpu power.

 

thers also the antivirus aol or firewall thingy or security what ever that lagged out a bunch of customers computers. if you reinstall usually that security stuff updates it self, if the update went wrong the cpu overload appeared to happen so see if you can eliminate the security center and reinstall that.

 

Note: worste that can happen with shutting down some processes, is that you might have 2 restart the pc.

[Seth]

FYI-

 

CPU usage in Task Manager is not in real time, so you need to be careful. For example, you may see numerous cpu spikes, but they are so quick that they have no impact on performance.

 

Also note that in cases such as the poster's problem, it's better to end the process tree, and not just the process.

[Dalo Harkin]

AOL is renowned for hogging resources - you can try and get rid of some of the 'background' tasks that they install on your system, in msconfig and then startup