louise wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>
>> "Far Canal" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.1fd3afd4299f9be7989ed6@news.readfreenews. net...
>>
>>> Rick wrote
>>>
>>>> One way to approach it is to look and see who they are talking to. You
>>>> might try grabbing a copy of TCPView from Sysinternals (which has since
>>>> been absorbed by Microsoft at http://************/y82msb ) and have
>>>> it set
>>>> to autostart. Then watch for your svchost connections and use whois
>>>> to find
>>>> out who it is talking to.
>>>>
>>>> Off the top of my head, I suspect you will find that it is
>>>> Microsoft's WGA
>>>> program module that phones home shortly after booting up a Windows XP
>>>> system. Try going here:
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage
>>>>
>>>> for more info.
>>>>
>>> XP-AntiSpy is very useful for turning off unwanted M$ crap
>>> http://www.xp-antispy.org/
>>> Makes it easy to turn parts of it back on for M$ Update. Allegedly.
>>> Version 3.96-4 has recently appeared and stops automatic install of IE7
>>> which is causing problems for many.
>>
>> WGA certainly took it's toll on my resources. Decided to stick with it
>> rather than wind back the system to ease the pain of update.
>>
>> The IE7 install seems to have slowed down the PC as well but IE7
>> itself seems to run OK.
>>
>> Time to start working our what is driving SVCHOST sessions. Thanks again,
>>
> I'm sorry to report that I have tried everything I can think of -
> particularly everything that is different about my portable than my
> desktop (where SAS doesn't drain resources).
>
> Windows update is, and has been, disabled.
> I turned off Windows firewall - seemed to have no effect.
>
> I just spent the last hour using Process Explorer and suspending each
> process to see if it reduced CPU use by SAS and the excessive
> fluctuations. I could not find a process that stopped the cpu jumping
> to 40+ usage, then to 12% and right back to 40 something % - sometimes
> into the 50s.
>
> Whatever this process is, it is happening literally every one or two
> seconds - back and forth.
>
> And, as noted before, it doesn't happen on my desktop.
>
> If anyone has any other suggestions, I'll be happy to try them as I'm
> really very disappointed to find SAS unusable on my portable - the
> machine that is, in fact, much more vulnerable because of the traveling
> it does and the various wireless connections I make while traveling.
>
> Is there a more thorough way to track this down?

Louise,

I don't know, but I would look at 1) XP Services and 2) hibernation.
ISTR laptops having problems where a desktop does not due to battery
saving measures.

XP Services --- are these the same on both systems?

http://www.ntsvcfg.de/ntsvcfg_eng.html
http://www.jasonn.com/turning_off_un..._on_windows_xp
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm

You disabled Windows Update, but did you disable BITS?

Resume from Hibernate or Standby in Seconds

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...astresume.mspx

You can Google for other articles on laptop hibernation problems.

FWIW, I use SAS real-time with KAV 6 (I am currently evaluating AVS),
and I rarely even know that either one is installed and enabled. I did
disable all unnecessary XP services using Torsten Mann's batch file.

Ron