I woke up this morning and the computer was acting up... first i notice it was making sounds like as if it was buffering something ... so i pulled up the task manager and this is what i saw. I don't know what all those numbers and lines are for or what they do but i have never seen my computer like this. I closed all my programs and everything but its still making this sounds and the CPU usage goes up and down... the memory goes up to about 1.38 GB and the goes back to .99 i don't know whats going on i need help.

how low is your psyical memory... and the kernal too, what is the system specs ?

Windows Vista Home Premium (build 6000) Gateway 2000 GM5420
System Serial Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.87 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Intel Corporation DG965OT AAD75595-200
Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bus Clock: 266 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corp. MQ96510J.15A.0340.2007.0115.1645 01/15/2007
Drives Memory Modules c,d
320.07 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
218.41 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ATAPI DVD W DH16W1P ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]

Generic USB CF Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Generic USB MS Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Generic USB SD Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
Generic USB SM Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
Hitachi HDT725032VLA380 [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 0 2022 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'J6H1' has 1024 MB (serial number 0x0000104D)
Slot 'J6H2' is Empty
Slot 'J6J1' has 1024 MB (serial number 0x0000304B)
Slot 'J6J2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes


c: (NTFS on drive 0) 309.64 GB 213.76 GB free
h: (NTFS on drive 0) 10.43 GB 4.65 GB free

might be good to see what processes are running...
77 running seems way too much in my opinion

my system as standard runs 69, and the above system isn't too shoddy at all, it should be able to cope easily... whats the total RAM?

Select the Processes tab and sort it alphabetically. See what's running. Do you have some maintenance tasks scheduled by mistake? If you have everything closed and your CPU is getting heavy usage, something's doing it.

I did what mightybeet said... i shutdown the computer and this is what i got ...



I don't know whats going on but now i get on core 1 4% - 10% usage and on core 2 i get 4% - 8% usage... it goes up and down sometimes reaching 18% ... the RAM is now at 57%

I had the same problem on a computer I owned a few years back.

Apparently what happened was someone hacked into my system and loaded a trojan virus.

Do a complete virus scan of your system. It looks like a program or application is running in the background sucking up your resources.

Also, check for spyware.

Let me know what happens.

Jim

run adaware from lavasoft and s&d spybot

I did ran ad ware and 3 things came up... i delete them but it is still running high.

That "dwm.exe" file is taking a lot of resources up. Did you recently enable glass effects on your desktop? DWM can either be desktop windows management or, as some websites say, spyware. If you have enabled your desktop effects, try disabling them and see if things speed up. I'm not sure you should just end the process, however, if they are running. Just an idea.

your serial numbers seems to be a row of X's.
This can cause problems.

Spybot can catch stuff that AdAware doesn't. Makes a good 1-2 punch combo.

Also, IMHO, McAffee is a crappy anti-virus. So is Norton. Both are resource hogs. Your slowdown could've been during a system scan?

Anyway, put serious consideration into AVG (http://www.grisoft.com). It plays much nicer than Norton and McAffee.

I ran both of them and spybot picked 32 problems... i deleted them but the problem continues... so i called gateway to see if they could help and they got me to turn some startup programs... it didn't work

I don't know what else to do but to do a full system restore

Ohh and RexMoss is my brother David so he is not an alias

same problem here i am running Spybot and its not enough.... am i wroong but, (Gref for instance) or it could be sthg to shut down both in taskmanager and in LOcal KEYS...? i learnt its a way to stop these processes...and before that resstarting pc in safe mode ... no ?