re: poor cd-rom data transfer rates Thursday, July 3, 2003 at 7:16 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Helpful Guy (2 messages posted) Peter, 100% CPU Utilization might be caused by an iEXPLORE.EXE bug where after you close IE, it stays running in the background using 100% CPU. Check to see if iEXPLORE is running in TASKMGR.EXE Take care.. On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 9:40 pm, Peter wrote: >Ok so I've just installed W2K on a fresh system and there are two annoying bugs I >cannot fasten down; > >firstly being the moment after my modem authenticates me for a TCP/IP connection, >CPU usage maxes out at 100%. When I log off, it remains at 100%, and the only way >I can 'fix' it is it reboot or relogin to W2K. > >Secondly, and this is really annoying, is that I have a creative 52x CD-ROM installed, >yet when I transfer data files, it only copies across at ~1MB a second, or maybe >the speed of a 8x. Why?? > >It is a brand new computer, 1.2Ghz w/512MB, 7200 RPM hdd, W2K professional with >SP2 and all critical updates. Written in response to: poor cd-rom data transfer rates (Peter: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 9:40 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] poor cd-rom data transfer rates (Peter: Wed, Aug 22, 2001, 9:40 pm) re: poor cd-rom data transfer rates (Helpful Guy: Thu, Jul 3, 2003, 7:16 am) re: poor cd-rom data transfer rates (Dodenburg: Sun, Aug 26, 2001, 6:12 am) re: poor cd-rom data transfer rates (Chad: Mon, Aug 27, 2001, 7:54 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum