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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 5 Apr 2007 07:49:27 -0700
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On 3 Apr 2007 at 17:46, Dollie wrote:

> I have a Dell Pentium III and in Task Manager, Processes, explorer.exe
> is using almost all the cpu, the curser jumps around like it gets
> stuck.  I am trying to get AVG Anti-virus and Anti-spyware on it to
> see if there is a problem and it is taking forever.  Does anybody have
> any ideas? 

  When I have a runaway process on my machine, I right-click on it and lower 
its priority to "Below Normal" or even "Low".  It can still sometimes hit 
98%, but it gets out of the way of the processes I'm using to try to 
diagnose the underlying cause....

David Gillett

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