>>Yesterday my office machine was working fine. This morning I accessed it from home. It had restarted after Windows automatic update overnight. Now CPU usage is 100%, hardly any of it in System Idle Process. It's worst when iexplorer is running (40-60% of CPU usage). Windows task manager takes a bigger chunk than usual. Forget about doing useful work.
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>>Whan can be the explanation? What can be done about it?
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>>TIA,
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>>Alex
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>what processes are utilizing the most cpu usage and memore? Click on the column headers to sort in descending order. If it turns out to be svchost, you can also try these (at your own risk):
>http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_fix_this_high_cpu_usage_svchost_virus_or_whatever_it_is.html
>http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread75130.html#

Thanks for the Tracy. I will check both places. The processes using the most CPU are iexplorer and task manager. After I close iexplorer from the task manager, system idle goes back up to about 65%; still a small number considering I am doing absolutely nothing useful. Something is living in iexplorer, I fear. I am staring up Process Explorer to see what it says.

Alex