Hey there
I am having a real problem with my computer, its running on windowsXp profesional with SP2 installed, i have an nVIDIA 6200 AGP 256 MB graphics card, its a 2.4GB intel celeron with 512 MB RAM installed. And the problem i am having is that when i go to play a game on it say POSTAL 2 for example, it works fine and very dandy for about 15-20 min, then everything slows down to a near hault, when i check the CPU its running at 100%, and its explorer.exe and system.exe that are using up so much, usually 50 - 40 for one and the other equals it up, its really slowing down my pc, and then after i exit the game if i try and play it again it wont work, and only seems to work after restarting my pc, and my CPU doesn't appear to be overheating, i dont have los of stuff running, I have Zonealarm Pro, AVG Free and thats it, Can someone please help as i have no idea what is wrong with it, i got it at Christmas so its not even old,
P.s I have 2 hard drives one 80GB with 17Gb free and a 250GB with 202GB free.
Thanks For any help i recieve :)
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Jump to PostWell, since you say that explorer and system.exe are the processes taking up the CPU time, Id suggest you run a virus scan first. It's possible that these files may be infected. Also, kill all unnecessary processes in Task Manager and then try running the game. See if these suggestions …
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