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April 3, 2007 at 12:35 AM
ashwintopkar

cmd.exe taking up 90-100% CPU

by ashwintopkar . Updated 18 years, 6 months ago

Hi,

I am having a laptop with 1.1GHz and 760MB RAM. I have McAfee anitivirus ent. edition installed. Recently, I have observed that even if the laptop is idle the CPU usage is alomost 100% (not even virus scan running). When I checked I saw one cmd.exe running and taking almost all the CPU. However, I was not running anything through command prompt. How can I check which application is running that? Even though it is running laptop speed is not affected too much. E.g.if I start other applications of work in other applications they run reasonalbly well (slight performance degradation.

I have scanned the laptop manually to check and confirm there is no virus. If I kill the process nothing happens but after some time that cmd.exe again starts running. Does anyone know / has anyone come across same problem? Please let me know.

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