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Ok, I noticed a trend. My laptop is making notices when the CPU Usage % gets to like 80-100%. Why is the CPU usage getting that high. I only had

Posted by James Bond (aka Igor) (aka Igor) Apr 14 '10, 08:48

firefox and Word open.

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other things to consider, conflicts between AV and adaware/popup protectors, start up monitors, a lot of times a restricted ad site will keep trying - zeitgeist Apr 14, 10:12
What do have running for processes? -- nm - Shaun Apr 14, 08:51 1
- Firefox, Win Explore, Desktop Win Manager, VAIO Care, MS Essentials, VESMgrSub, SysnTPEnH, Winlogon, taskmgr, igfxrvc are the top ones -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 14, 08:54
Flash in Firefox can bring CPU usage up quite a bit. -- nm - scorpion Apr 14, 08:49 6
- especially those flash games in facebook - decline Apr 14, 08:50 1
  - Yup -- nm - scorpion Apr 14, 08:52
- I am not doing anything new however. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 14, 08:50 2
  - I occasionaly have the same issue in FF if it's been open on a page conataing Flash page or Java for a period of time -- nm - scorpion Apr 14, 08:51 1
    - terrible garbage cleanup. the flash plugin grabs tons of memory (buth actual and virtual) and never lets it go. -- nm - decline Apr 14, 08:53
- So can Java in FF -- nm - scorpion Apr 14, 08:50
Porn -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 08:49
both of which are memory hogs. - decline Apr 14, 08:49

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