my laptop has started running at 100% cpu usage over the past few days,
it never used to.
i dont have any photo's stored on the laptop and have minimal programmes on there either as its only used for web based stuff.

i havent installed any new programmes lately or removed any.

what would cause it to start running at 100%

 

virus could cause this

 

thats what I was hoping it wouldnt be,
seems strange as my norton has just run out aswell

 

Press ctrl alt del or right click on your start bar> task manager > processes.

trhere is a column for CPU usage

If anything other than 'system idle' is at 95-100% write the name of the process down and post it here

 

Agreed.

 

cheers,
it seems to be running ok at the moment but as soon as it starts again ill post up

 

ok, its been playing up abit today, been quite slow even freezing in some places.
i checked the processes and iexplore.exe seems to be running at 90% +

 

Thats your internet browser mate.

Is this a laptop or a desktop?

If its a laptop and you normally hibernate it then try a proper restart.

 

it is a laptop Chip,

I tend not to leave it logged on or in standby as its also recently been telling me 'your resources are used up please logg on with a user thats already logged on'


both problems only recently started

 

Try running some antivirus software on it mate.

 

ok, cheers Chip.

 

Click start, then run and type in msconfig, select the tab that says selective startup, it will show you a list of items loaded when the machine is in Windows. untick anything that you don't need running, things like Adobe and office etc.