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sometimes TASKMGR.exe uses high CPU amount. WHY?
« on: June 07, 2010, 03:07:18 PM »
Sometimes my computer seems to run slowly, and I open windows task manger to see what's causing it, I sometimes see TASKMGR.exe to be on high CPU usage. WHY?

I'm sure it is not a malware or virus, cuz AVAST, and malwarebytes both say my computer is clean.

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Re: sometimes TASKMGR.exe uses high CPU amount. WHY?
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2010, 03:11:03 PM »
Define "high cpu usage". And is task manager the only process using the cycles?

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« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2010, 03:47:08 PM »
Sometimes I see 90-some % CPU usage.

At this very moment, I have the Windows Task Manager opened and I see TSKMGR.exe is hovering at about 52%.

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« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2010, 03:51:03 PM »
Okay. Regardless of what you said about avast and malwarebytes I'd still go through the process if I were you - just to be certain - especially if this just started out of the blue:
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html

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« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2010, 03:58:25 PM »
ok thanks Allan. I'll check it out later.

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Re: sometimes TASKMGR.exe uses high CPU amount. WHY?
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2010, 04:05:18 PM »
Okay. If your system IS clean we can always go from there.

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    Re: sometimes TASKMGR.exe uses high CPU amount. WHY?
    « Reply #6 on: June 08, 2010, 02:12:25 AM »
    Use Cleaner
    Restart
    Boot into Windows, install default VGA adapter
    restart
    Install drivers
    restart

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    « Reply #7 on: June 08, 2010, 05:45:58 AM »
    Ignore the above post.

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    « Reply #8 on: June 13, 2010, 03:40:38 PM »
    Allan

    Computer still seems to be clean, but my dad said my pc seemed bit slow at times yesterday when he wasn't using his stock analysis software he installed on my pc. He said taskmgr.exe was still bit high, but right now it seem ok at 5% usage.

    SAS detected nothing either. I personally usually don't get problems my computer in terms of it being slow but my dad did when he borrowed my pc oddly.

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    « Reply #10 on: June 13, 2010, 03:54:27 PM »
    http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html

    I think I did everything there, if I'm missing something I'd like to know.

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    « Reply #11 on: June 13, 2010, 03:55:10 PM »
    You need to post the logs in the malware forum so one of CH's malware specialists will find them.

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    « Reply #12 on: June 13, 2010, 03:57:42 PM »
    thank you.