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by beabrautjulian

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I frequently get a 100% CPU usage warning on my PC. This causes my PC to freeze up resulting in me having to soft boot to continue using the PC. Please advise.

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by Former member

i do not have an answer but have experience he same problem on a 900mhz sys wih 500mb ram (compaq system). suspect it has to do with too many threads but haven't pinned it down, please let me know if you get an answer and I'll do the same.

by iwebb

On your PC what Anti Virus Software are you using? As I know that the McAfee Antivirus software frequently causes this problem under Windows 2000 and XP. The problem is that McAfee is attempting to identify the IP Address of the PC it is running on(why this causes the PC to lockup I don't know). You can set a registry value to stop McAfee checking for this.
HKLM
SOFTWARE
Network Associates
TVD
Shared Components
Alert Manager
Current Version
Create a newDWORD variable with the name of NoIP. Assign a value of Zero to this variable. This should stop McAfee causing your PC to lock up.

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