Computer acting up

Well, you can Google each of those processes and see what you can find. There's probably a bunch of the processes that can be disabled from startup, i.e. the ones that only check for updates every once-in-a-while like qttask.exe and jusched.exe. You can also watch the list of processes in the task manager (organized descending by CPU usage) and see what process pops into use whenever the program loses focus.

 

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Try shutting down all accessory programs, disconnect the internet and run Disk defragmentation. See if that helps to place fragmented files next to each other on the hard disk and it might even improve overall performance.
Sometimes having many programs start up at the same time causes focus to shift momentarily between programs. If u give more details of ur computer hardware configuration it might help.
I think such a problem is also caused sometimes when the video memory is shared (as against a dedicated video display chip).

 

does it happen in any program? sounds more like a problem with your monitor....?

 

Nah, with the symptoms described, you're almost definitely looking at a software issue, not a hardware problem.

 

Find out more about that “long list of processes running.â€

Download Sysinternals Process Explorer (Freeware)

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html


Also apropos for the symptoms and this this time of year; the need to make sure you computer isn't suffering from excess heat. When was the last time you cleaned the inside of the case and checked the fans for proper operation?

 

Are you sure it's not Norton? I dumped Norton AV for Grisoft AVG and couldn't be happier.. Same with Norton Internet Security- dumped it and installed an older copy of BlackIce from my Win2000 days (but they still had updates available!).. The Norton stuff does work as advertised, but there are bugs and so many layers of object-oriented classes that they eat up memory and CPU.. With a P4 2.8GHz and 1Gb RAM and the various Norton tools installed, there were times that the machine suffered noticable slowdowns and inexplicable behaviour that all vanished when I uninstalled Norton..

I am absolutely opposed to all these object oriented languages- when you're going concept to code, they're great, they also allow much better code reuse than ever before, but the problem is that I'd say that 90% of the programmers out there can't write worth sh*t in object oriented languages, so you end up with bloated code that runs like molasses, is impossible to debug and even more difficult to maintain.. This is expecially evident in langauges where the line between conventional code and object-oriented code is blurred.. I come from a Smalltalk background where the line is clearly drawn- the language simply does not allow you to write some of the horrible stuff that you see going on today in Java, ActiveX and C++.. Anyways, just my opinion..

 

Have you loaded any other new software, browser add-ons, etc. lately?

 

What web sites do you have open in Firefox? I notice the same behavior if any of the web sites I have open refresh themselves automatically. Try closing all web sites and see if it persists.

 

For weeks now, my wireless mouse has wandered a LOT, like the computer has gotten too busy doing something else to keep track of it. Can't find anything that should be making it do that.

Then sometimes the whole computer siezes up while the Virtual Memory file gets made larger, like 512MB of RAM isn't enough anymore. No sign my memory chips aren't working right.

And today I read about new and improved rootkits that hide from scanning software so I wonder how shafted I am...

 

I don't think it's the cause of your problem, but I've never liked spysweeper. On newly installed "clean" systems, I'll go with Microsoft Defender. On older systems, I'll go with defender, plus spybot Search and destroy.

Just to ensure you are not infected, I'd download Trend Micro's Sysclean. I've found it to be the most reliable of all of them and I have detected viruses before on systems norton and other programs have found to be clean.

After all this, If you are still having problems, I'd remove any unnecessary programs from starting up. You can also run msconfig - once it opens, go to the startup tab and try disabling everything. See if the problem still occurs.

Hope this helps.

 

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[apparently talking to myself :blink: ]

Noooooooooo! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

I recommend a software program early in the morning and then news comes out just after the noon hour on the same day that Microsoft had gone and bought the company.

Damn it! Is nothing sacred?

We ARE being assimilated!

Get the program while you can . . . before it becomes a bloated, buggy, dangerous POM$$$S.

 

i think this is your problem :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Hi Get rid of norton internet security,it will cause lots of problems.type in startup inspector and down load
and install it.while online you run it and it will tell you what is running in the background and in most cases
it will tell you if you need it or not.you can remove the check and it will no longer run in the back ground.if it
tells you it dont know what the program is ,it is best to let it run unless you really know what you are doing.
its great and free,cant beat that with a stick.
also i think the best thing to use for spyware is adaware and that is also free.I haven used spy sweaper but my neighbor has it and dont like it ,he said he has lots of problems with it.
I put adaware and startup inspector on every computer i sell and dont have many call backs.