My pc is constantly running at 100% CPU-usage ... scanned for virusses, trojans, bots ... nothing found.

I have two HD's:
1) 80 Gb 7200 rpm and 2) 80 Gb 5400 rpm ... never had probs before.
Running XP.

What could be the problem ... fragmentation?

Thanks

EDIT: PROBLEM FIXED

hmm
throw it away and get a new one
might sort the problem out

other than that i cant help mate, sorry

simonratcliffe

LOL, thought I could expect such an answer :-p

shit. 80mb hdd's get a new one :P

Does Windows XP even install on 80mb of free space? i think not.

Im thinking you means 80GB or something? That shounds more resonable.

But i cant help, try re-installing Windows or something.

SiMON

Had the same problem a few weeks ago....

Go to the menu that is displayed when you press CTRL-ALT-DEL and watch which program is taking up all the CPU. The program that I had was something called winnet.exe

Search for it and delete it. This should sort out the problem

You might have a corrupt avi on you're harddisk. Had this once. When i opened a folder with movies. My explorer.exe began to run at 98%. So when deleted some movies (  :(   ) everything was ok agian.
So maybe you've got a corrupt movie (avi) on you're desktop. Check this.

Sinph, I think you hit the jackpot man !!

I do had a corrupt avi in my movie folder ... and indeed it was explorer that took all the CPU-usage ... thanks !!!

Hum, problem not solved because can't delete that corrupt avi...
I unrarred it a few days ago but my pc crashed during the unrarring. I deleted the rar files accidentely and now I can't delete this avi.

It says: I must turn off the write protection ...

I can't acces the properties of the file ... so don't know how I can change this.

maybe first terminate the process running .. if the file is beeing used you can't delete it...

I would advice what ljosaa said press ctrl alt end finnish the cpu sucking program then try to delete it...

FOrmat your harddrive.

You can use the Taskmanager to see which task, or tasks are taking the processor time. For the rest its trail & error matey!

OUT.

Problem fixed !! Thanks sinph for the right information, thanks to the others for trying to help me out...

Have deleted the file in DOS, in windows it wasn't possible. Now everything works back as normal ....

I'm happy :-)

winXP is really fucked up. i have a similar problem here. in my case i tried to fix some incomplete avi's with divxfix. they can't be removed and when i try to, my explorer sucks 100%. just shutdown explorer and restart it again. and when XP really starts fucking with you, format it and install win2000 again.
ACDsee gave me the same problem when i opened an archive of images that seemed to contain corrupted files

edit: glad to see it is fixed already. still annoying that i now have to go to dos to remove them.

it's just a little bug in win xp! no need to reinstall xp entirely!!

to fix the problem, check here:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/archive/39/2002/06/1/1323

Daxie

hey thanks daxie! that was easy, and it works like a charm. was able to delete those avi's like that. *saving page to harddisk*

Cool !! Daxie, thanks alot. All my avi load much much faster now ... You can read the specifications of the avi with other programs, so no probs.

Nice to know this.

                       I know this problem has been fixed, but anyone else:

This has happened to me a few times also........i hover or click on the bad AVI file and Windows Xp jumps to 99%.........anyways, what i have found that usually works is:

1) Restart Windows
2) Go to folder where the AVI is at (DO NOT CLICK OR DO ANYTHING YET ;)
3) Put anyother file, doesnt matter what, in there, and starting with the new file, highlight both files together
4) Quickly DELETE them, send them to the trash bin, if that other file is important to u, u can go to the trash and restore it.
5) Empty trash, if the corrupt AVI file wont delete from Trash, repeat the above steps


This works, i use it every time bad AVI's come around

Yes I have this problem with undeletable files. One way is like said above, delete it and another dummy file you move next to it. Or, I sometimes delete them using FlashXP or Nero burner haha. It does work like a charm too.

GH

i get the 100% cpu usage, when i visit heavy flash sites, like gamespot.com -which shouldnt be a problem as i got a 1 Ghz cpu, anybody know how to fix the problem?

im also running XP

hmm @ sinph.. maybe thats what happens with me

whenever i open my p2p folder, explorer stops responding :-S

You guys are getting these "unable to delete" error messages because Windows has a preview feature. You cannot delete a file that is being previewed at the same time. This was made possible as a convenience.

As for me, I turn off the Preview feature.

Lisa