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Program randomly uses all CPU power

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by debitwomoons

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Running WinXPHome. A program named pctspk.exe randomly and continuously pops up and uses all the CPU power, causing drastic slow down on all other processes. I have gone into Services and disabled this program, however, it keeps popping up. Can you give me a clue as to how to keep this program from hogging the CPU?

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by mdelyea

This file is related to your pctel hsp modem. You can stop it loading from msconfig. As far as I know it is not essential for this prog to run.

by debitwomoons

Thanks for your answer. It really helped me. Sorry my rating took so long but here are your points. Sincerely, Debi

by jesselou

if this program is your modem then you will try to use a generic driver windows xp offers a generic modems try to uninstall your present modem driver and replace it with the generic when windows ask you to automatically search a driver choose display one of the driver and select manually you click the generic and choose the right description of your modem. sometimes the generic ones is more speedier than that of he actual driver of the device.

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