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Old 07-09-2009, 02:30 PM
Craig Coope
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Re: Something is driving CPU Usage up to 100%

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:09:04 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fangnail
<richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote:

>I have XP and something has been crashing my Firefox. I've tried
>everything I can think of, I even ran it with no antivirus. Something
>is STILL driving CPU Usage up to 100% for no apparent reason, cuasing
>FF to crash. Any idea what it might be??
>
>The FF Crash Reports usually say Exception Violation which means
>something wrote to the memory where it shouldn't have.
>
>I have no firewall either. I tried reinstalling FF and Flash too.


Ctrl Alt Del and have a look to see what is using the CPU in the
Process tab. Usually System Idle Process will be using most if your
system is idle. Do this when Firefox is running and when it's not.

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