this is an old thread, your cpus and graphics cards prob can't handle the games, upgrade and clean your computers

this isn't very old...and my CPU and graphics card can handle it just fine. I dont know what the problem was but it went away after a few days...which basically means I'm sitting around waiting for it to happen again.

I already mentioned that I had run a Virus scan and ad-aware. I do have all the windows upgrades/patches installed. The problem is I cant tell what kind of firewall I have up because I'm on a college network and they dont really know crap about computers. That probably means it's just the windows firewall, but it seems to be messing up my gaming pretty bad (some games lag worse than when I was on a 56k, cant host games period)

Next time it happens I think I'm just gonna scrap my computer and buy a new one this time instead of building my own. I've had all sorts of problems with this one, most of them I could fix by myself but I had to spend about 200 bucks fixing this before when I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it

Old thread? Nope.

2.5 P4 and a GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256 MB... so you are wrong again.


Any other ideas Mr. just got oWn'ed, I mean Mr. steosaur(oWn)? :evil:

Never mind thought I say it that's all. Also just reformat your headache will go away. Like I tell my friends, there like; how to I reformat my computer? I show them once and have them do it 5 times in a row after that they know how to and understand how easy and fast it is then sometimes trying to fix a glitch like the one you have. Simple easy 5 minutes.

My brothers comp(win2k) had this problem. svchost was using upto 70% of cpu which equaled to 100% cpu usage and made the comp extremely slow. I've just fixed it though. Go to your task manager and see if you have a program called 'winlog.exe' running. If its there, it's the problem. You can either delete it or rename it. It's located in your windows/system32 folder as 'winlog.exe' and 'winlog.exe.pol'. Do NOT delete WINLOGON.EXE, as that is NOT the problem file. Anyway, this 'winlog.exe' seems to be some kind of virus. If you have firewall software (zone alarm) you can see that it tries to send outgoing information over and over again to different addresses, which probably explains why it hogs all your cpu power.

btw, having system idle process use 99% cpu is good if u guys haven't realized yet lol...

winlog.exe seems to be some sort of trojan check it out on google.com

found out what it was
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/anal...2agobotlf.html

I had this problem. What I did to fix it was to do a system restore. Once I did that my cpu runs normally not more than 30% when playing games.

What games you playing haha any high end game like UT2004 and FarCry take up like 100% of the CPU not the kernal though. Even if your on a 2.8ghz+

Having a simliar problem.....and boyfriend is mostly complaining that it's messing up his games...

Nothing I've done seems to help for long, though when I run the desktop in 'safe' mode, it doesn't spike hardly at all (would be great if I could go online in 'safe' mode too)

Any ideas? Would appreciate any and all help.

I'm running a T2482 emachine with AMD AthlonXP, 512 MB RAM, 80Gig harddrive. I haven't been downloading anything other than very simple scripts for my website (all from sites I trust and have never had a problem with before). We did recently upgrade the memory chip, but that was adding just one chip.....and it had been working great till this latest extreme annoyance. I've run all the anti-virus and anti-spyware stuff I can think of and nothing shows up for viruses.....and I keep taking out spyware and deleting the backups and it's still messing up....sometimes....
It seems to go away sometimes and then it comes back.
Hmmm......I'm running out of ideas.....any help out there?