i have an old PIII 500
it seems to be accessing the hard drive almost continuously. i have run spybot, i have run virus scans, nothing shows up. i press "ctrl,alt,del" and no tasks are running, but the CPU usage meter fluctuates between 5% and 80% constantly.
anyone have any clues why?
this issue, began 2 days ago, prior to that it was a normal acting comp.
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/me is suspecting a troj/worm
i have 384 megs of ram, nothing new has been installed or activated by myself in the last couple days.
/me is attempting a windows update, but progress is halting due to cpu usages 
/me will also run AVG again and see if anything arises.
/me ran regclean already
nothing is running in the background that i have set up or am aware of.
/me is suspecting a troj/worm
/me is suspecting a troj/worm
/me is suspecting a troj/worm
dammit.
thanx jeff.
[addsig]after hours i am still no closer to a solution, but i am almost sure its not a virus or a trojan, but the killer is, even though i can get to microsoft, it refuses to connect to the download area. 
i am on the point of breaking out the razor blades, 2 days is enough already.. yesterday with steam/HL2 and today with microsoft..
/me goes and gets some java.
can someone else go to windows update and see if they can download something? at least i will know if its down, or i am :/
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i can connect just fine, i cannot download any updates.. did you try to get one?
[addsig]*scratches noggin*
very strange
thanx duncan
[addsig]OK people, how does one go about turning "auto update" back on??
perhaps it can do a better job than i.
i disabled it ages ago so i would control the bandwidth used..
[addsig]perhaps it can do a better job than i.
i disabled it ages ago so i would control the bandwidth used..
start menu/settings/control panel/system/automatic updates tab
in XP anyway....
sadly, win2000pro
i have looked in the help menu, but it only displays manual activation, not auto update.
thanx irish..
anyone else??
[addsig]i found it, under control panel , but its not working either
i reinstalled IE 6, to no avail..
i seem to have the random accessing of the hard drive under control.. i think perhaps AVG was on, in spite of the fact that i had it turned to manual, instead of auto :/
so, i can now use the PC, but i cannot update windows at all.
this is truly strange, i normally do not have so much trouble hence tis why i posted here..
/me is frustrated to no end.
plus, windows update will only work with IE5 or above, so firefox and netscape are no good
any other suggestions guys?
[addsig] dunno, didn't read it.. i just have 23 critical updates.. it seems that none are available to download, cause the progress indicator stays at zero for... *looks at watch* almost 2 hours now
hmm, you can download without using update then?
its not as if i want, its more i need.
i almost exclusively prefer IE, and as you are so famous for saying, its flawed. i want the loopholes filled, to block out those troj/virus issues.
so, you are saying i can download without going through windows update?
[addsig]i dl'd the express sevice pack 4 installer and put it on my ftp since you cant get win update page to work... you can try it this way...
http://www.rbr.com/MW/SP4Express_EN.exe
service pack 4 updates all versions... heres a link about it as well
Hope this works.... worth a shot.
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