heads up if you have an asus motherboard

[diif]

Re: heads up if you have an asus motherboard

Download and run process explorer to find out what's consuming your CPU and ram.
Are you using Vista ?

[rhomanski]

Re: heads up if you have an asus motherboard

No it's 7. I used task manager to see the svchost was fronting for the os. It's stopped now. Back to 3% pcu usage and 38% memory.

Somehow that avg uninstaller left bits of the program behind. I'll have to go through and finish it off manually. I've had that happen before with avast. It's like they want to make it impossible to get rid of them, kind of like a virus.

[dan8139]

Re: heads up if you have an asus motherboard

Can't you upgrade the RAM? Seriously, 1GB sucks on almost any modern OS. You could also try re-installing the KBwhatever I and someone else posted earlier. It's worked for me and quite a few customers having svchost (if you use process explorer it's the update service), doing exactly what you've described.

[goodpsusearch]

Re: heads up if you have an asus motherboard

Seriously, you can find RAM on ebay practically for free. I wished I knew 2 years ago as I would have avoided spending so much money on RAM to upgrade old DDR PCs..

[dan8139]

Re: heads up if you have an asus motherboard

Yeah that 2006 Sony (Original Centrino I guess) could be made to run pretty good... Ditch any cleaners and AVG etc and find a nice tight anti-virus (I'll leave that up to you, I don't use it) and stick 3GB in that sucker (I expect that's the max for that chipset) and it'll be great. My mum has a similar laptop (HP DV2000) that is still used daily and it's usably fast.

[diif]

Re: heads up if you have an asus motherboard

Reinstall your antivirus then use revo uninstaller to remove it.

[dan8139]

Re: heads up if you have an asus motherboard

What does Revo do that the normal uninstall (which usually uses an msi script) doesn't?

[rhomanski]

Re: heads up if you have an asus motherboard

It has three gig memory in it I was wrong. It seems to be back to normal now. Seems to have been microsoft forcing me to update it. I'll probably just manually remove the remnants of avg antivirus. I've had to do that on my other machines.

PCG-7142L is the model number. I traded a Toshiba for it. Plus paid $300. Couldn't get that now though.