louise <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in
news:4tf72uF143cglU1@mid.individual.net:

> Ron Lopshire wrote:
>> 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.../fastresume.ms
>> px
>>
>> 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
>
> Thanks for the suggestion
>
> I have BITS set to manual on both my desktop and the
> portable (Thinkpad X40).
>
> I'm running SAS and NOD32 on my desktop and SAS tends to
> use about 2% or less of the cpu resources. So, I have
> reason to assume that BITS set to manual is ok.
>
> I'm running NOD32 on my Thinkpad and after installing SAS on
> the portable, it was using as much as 50% of the cpu
> resources. I've reluctantly uninstalled it at the moment.
>
> Both machines have BITS set to manual and windows update
> disabled.
>
> I installed a trial version of AVG AntiSpyware on my
> portable and it is using an average of about 2% of
> resources, as it should.
>
> But I wish I could get SAS to work properly - I believe it
> to be superior to AVG AntiSpyware.
>
> Do you have any other thoughts? It's very odd.
>
> Louise

Were you ever able to correct this?


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Last updated: December 7th, 2006