moonbounce
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I have an old Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop running Windows xp Pro sp3. I know this is a lot to ask of the computer but it seems to be handling the job quite well, with one exception.
When I first boot up, my hard drive light comes on and stays on for about an hour. What ever is running uses up 100% of my CPU and I can't do anything until it stops. I did a search on the internet, it was suggested to start the task manager to see what was running and stop that program, I did and I found a program that was running and I stopped it, it was the MicroSoft update program. Everything worked good after that until today, I am back at the same problem. I did run task manager again and it didn't show anything running excessively, mostly running was taskmanager and IE Explorer and Microsoft Security Essentials, but the hard drive light was on (continuously) and the harddrive was clicking away.
The only other thing I can think of is the computer is dumping info from the virtual windows that the computer has chosen to adjust all buy itself. Any ideas or help would be appreciated and thanks in advance. Just to note, I have also disabled add-on's.
Moonbounce
When I first boot up, my hard drive light comes on and stays on for about an hour. What ever is running uses up 100% of my CPU and I can't do anything until it stops. I did a search on the internet, it was suggested to start the task manager to see what was running and stop that program, I did and I found a program that was running and I stopped it, it was the MicroSoft update program. Everything worked good after that until today, I am back at the same problem. I did run task manager again and it didn't show anything running excessively, mostly running was taskmanager and IE Explorer and Microsoft Security Essentials, but the hard drive light was on (continuously) and the harddrive was clicking away.
The only other thing I can think of is the computer is dumping info from the virtual windows that the computer has chosen to adjust all buy itself. Any ideas or help would be appreciated and thanks in advance. Just to note, I have also disabled add-on's.
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