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Getting shurt system hangs suddenly

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Isurus

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Since the past couple of days I've noticed my mouse and my applications will hang/stall for about a second or so. I try to have my task manager open and organized by CPU process to see whats happening but when this happens its so fast I can barely make out all the shifting image names at the top to tell what might be the culprit.

The only thing that stands out is services.exe but I haven't been able to locate anywhere that might indicate it's a trojan. It seems to be the legit one from windows/system32/ folder.

If you guys could help me nail this down I'd really appreciate it. I run nod32 in the background for several weeks and never had a problem. I've shut it down recently to see if that helps but the short hangs still happen though it seems less frequently. I've defragged twice last night with Perfectdisk 8 trial and still have the problems.

I run a AMD x2 4400, gigabyte mobo, 1.5 gigs of ram, windows XP pro.

Thanks, Isurus
 
I would try running pslist from www.sysinternals.com. It will tell you how long each process has been running, and out of that time, how much CPU time it has taken. That way even if culprite is not currently spiking, you will still see that it has taken an amount of CPU time.

Also, you might want to look at process explorer to see if there are any processes that should not be there.

If it is services.exe that's spiking, then know that services.exe is a controller for all your services, so there could be a service that is causing the problem. For example, I had a problem with a process called leventmgr.exe (part of cisco security agent) had a bug that caused services.exe to use about 85-90 percent of CPU time. However, services.exe was not causing the problem, it was leventmgr.exe that was. We had to stop the csagent service to get the cpu time down, then upgrade to a newer version of CSA. You might have a service that it causing the slowdowns.
 
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