cpu usage

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January 17, 2005 at 2:58 am #16454

sunshine
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Why is aim using up to 99% of my cpu usage? It slows everything down and locks things up. Anyone else have this problem. I have windows xp home edition and aim 5.5.

thanks

January 17, 2005 at 3:53 am #112111

Spike
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Are you sure that it really is AIM? Right-click on your Taskbar and hit Task Maanger. Go to the Processes tab, find “aim.exe” and tell me how many KB it’s using up.

January 17, 2005 at 4:11 am #112117

sunshine
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Hello and yes it is aim bc i look at the taskbar and its always spiking to 50% and before i caught it at 99%. It fluctuates.

Any help would be great. thanks

January 17, 2005 at 4:35 am #112112

Spike
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You look at the taskbar? The taskbar doesn’t show on program’s CPU Usage, usually. Follow my diections I posted in my last post and tell me the number of KB its using.

January 18, 2005 at 6:29 pm #112113

Jon8RFC
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Using any plugins?

January 19, 2005 at 11:52 am #112115

CantTouchThis
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Step-by-step directions:

Press: Alt-Ctrl-Dlt
Click on the tab that says processes
Look for “aim.exe”
Report the numbers under “CPU” and “Mem Usage”

February 13, 2005 at 3:48 am #112118

sunshine
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today my cpu usage was 92% and 22,346 memory used when i checked it bc it was misbehaving. though it often spikes to 50% and i cant remember the memory used at that time. also now an error message is popping up outta nowhere every once in awhile. i hope thats enough info that someone can help.

sorry it took awhile to get back to u -i had to make an emergency trip to florida for family.

thanks in advance

February 13, 2005 at 7:12 am #112116

CantTouchThis
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he wanted to know how much AIM took up. The entire CPU’s Usage doesn’t help much.

February 13, 2005 at 8:42 pm #112119

sunshine
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okay…ummm task manager….and info under the processes tab for aim.exe….thats what i gave…if i am still wrong let me know

under the processes tab
image name = aim.exe
user name = owner
cpu =50
mem usage = 22,346k

i have no add-ons or plug-ins

February 14, 2005 at 2:35 am #112110

Real World
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running DeadAIM and Middleman as add-on for AIM will do that.

February 14, 2005 at 8:09 pm #112114

DrBroccoli
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sunshine wrote:

today my cpu usage was 92% and 22,346 memory used when i checked it bc it was misbehaving. though it often spikes to 50% and i cant remember the memory used at that time. also now an error message is popping up outta nowhere every once in awhile. i hope thats enough info that someone can help.

sorry it took awhile to get back to u -i had to make an emergency trip to florida for family.

thanks in advance

How much memory do you have, if its only taking up 22 MBs, and your CPU is that high? Whats your specs?
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