Weird spikes to 100% CPU usage

[Ferox13]

Well 'spikes' might be the wrong term as they often go on for 10-15 minutes.

Basically - I'd be surfing on laptop - mayve a few tabs open in firefox and maybe listening to MP3s on Media player and then i get a 100% cpu usage and my machine turns into a slug.

Some times after I reboot the spike is still there. I disabled my Adware at start up which i read might cause it but its still happening. Any ideas?

I'm running XP on a 1.6 centrino with 2gig ram.

Here's the back ground progs running:

[Napalm]

had a prob with this before, I suspect you have an intruder hogging your machine, try a msconfig and see what happens or try and shut down all the running exe's...

[pete]

Well 'spikes' might be the wrong term as they often go on for 10-15 minutes.

Basically - I'd be surfing on laptop - mayve a few tabs open in firefox and maybe listening to MP3s on Media player and then i get a 100% cpu usage and my machine turns into a slug.

Some times after I reboot the spike is still there. I disabled my Adware at start up which i read might cause it but its still happening. Any ideas?

I'm running XP on a 1.6 centrino with 2gig ram.

Here's the back ground progs running:

for starters run msconfig and disable realsched.exe (real player), jusched.exe (java) & acrotray (acrobat) auto updaters.

[Ferox13]

Thanks guys.

So u think the spikes were those programs trying to update?

[pete]

Thanks guys.

So u think the spikes were those programs trying to update?

i dunno, but they're pretty unnecessary

[Froog]

could be malware type stuff too. use adaware and spybot.