aaaaagh somebody help my screwy computer garbage

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Okay, I'm running Windows XP and my computer has been COMPLETELY bogged down today. My task manager won't show me how much each process is consuming CPU usage, but I know CPU usage is off the scale right now. Explorer will barely run. I tried running a Norton quickscan but it got stuck after scanning 722 programs. Can somebody at least tell me where I can find what's eating up so much memory?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 May 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

You can't sort by the CPU usage column in task manager?

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Explorer will barely run.

This is normal.

Sorry I'm no more help than that.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, are you sure the problem's not with memory? And do you defrag regularly?

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

You can't sort by the CPU usage column in task manager?

That's the problem - there is no CPU usage column in task manager anymore. Right now my task manager looks like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/sevenxviii/taskmgr.jpg

I don't know why or how it stopped being a normal task manager; it was a pretty long time ago.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

OK I downloaded ProcessExplorer and Windows Explorer is using 98% of my CPU. Now WHAT DO I DO?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/anim/reboot.jpg

― adam (adam), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think if you double-click the grey bit to the left of the 'end task' button in task manager you'll get the menu back.

Do you mean explorer.exe? Can you post the processes tab sorted by CPU? Also the memory window...

― KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 27 May 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome! Thanks for getting my Task Manager back!

Turns out it was Norton AntiVirus causing the problem. Uninstalled it and the comp's working great now.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 27 May 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

AVG and Avast! are both good free replacements for Norton AV.

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 27 May 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if it was to do with this news

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 27 May 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I've wanted to uninstall norton antivirus on my laptop for ages, but it was installed by the it lady at my old job and it wants a network password to uninstall. Any way around this?

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 May 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I want to install AVG, but I'm hesitant to uninstall Norton Antivirus. My subscription has expired, so it shouldn't be a big deal, right?

― youn (youn), Saturday, 27 May 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

teeny: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/529c2f9adcf33a1088256e22005026f1/46626512c9191f9088256a22002726fd?OpenDocument&prod=Symantec%20AntiVirus%20Corporate%20Edition&ver=9.0&src=ent&pcode=sav_ce&dtype=corp&svy=&prev=&miniver=savce_9.0

― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 27 May 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

there's also a program called nonav.exe that'll uninstall it

― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 27 May 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

ooh thanks I'll try that!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

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