re: high cpu usage and slow loading pages
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(22035 messages posted)
Opening up multiple instances of IE will indeed produce the same number of instances
that show up in the Task Manager. But with IE 7 or 8, there should be no reason to
open more than one, since M$ wised up and copied Mozilla's innovative idea to use
tabs.
One should expect for the cpu usage to spike whenever a new program is started, same
when you go to a new page, but if you have enough cpu speed, memory, and bandwidth,
it should settle back down quickly.
Many Norton products are resource hogs, and can bring a system to its "knees." Most
of the regulars here avoid anything produced by Symantec. However one of the real
experts here has recently stated that the Norton 2009 version does not suffer the
problems of previous versions.
On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 10:50 am, denz wrote:
>yes thank you to the both of you. I ran norton 2009 utilities to clean files, etc.
>and found a unusual number of problems that it was able to correct. The pages seem
>to be working better now. I am running internet exploer 8. It seems that with every
>window I open in internet exploer there is a responding iexplore.exe for every window
>open. Is that the norm? If I end process of each iexplore.exe then another window
>I have open will close and that iexplore.exe is gone. I believe the security is
pretty
>safe on this computer for I observe all files download and seem to have to pass
through
>norton 2009. Like I said I am in school for information technology and have the
basic
>knowledge I think to be aware of most attacks and how they happen. NOTE that I an
>just starting, my major is information systems security. If problems continue I
may
>switch to firefox and if norton is not doing the job for malware then I may purchase
>a malware detection program. If you have not suggested one already in the replys
>I would appreciate some advice on a quality program. I am aware that not all programs
>are what they are cracked up to be. The unsualness that I did not state earlier
is
>that my cpu usage drops to 1 or 2% after I open task manager then I close it turn
>right around and open task manager agin and cpu usage is back to 100% thendrops
to
>1 or 2% as long as I leave task manager window open. It seems strange that the cpu
>would drop back to normal as long as I leave task manager open and I watch it when
>I change pages and it stays within normal range. I find it veryu odd that the task
>manager window would appear to stop the cpu usage it makes me think that malware
>maybe in place. I understand that some programs allow people to use your computer
>without effectinhg much of its process therefore aloowing these people to go seemingly
>undetected to the untrained person. By no means am I that experienced. But give
me
>a year more in school and I should have things down pat. Thank you for your help.
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