Downgraded to XP SP3 and fuck dam what a fucking relief!... K before u guys flame me by saying what a Vista NOOB I must be let me tell ya.... after using the OS for several months it worked just fine but then all of the sudden it started to mismanage CPU...I know whut u thinking... u prolly caught a virus a spyware or had an app/service running in the background or via the svhost.exe process but nope... I use the task manager religiously and almost never close it .. because I like to know WTF is going on in the background while I work...
To make the story short... everytime I scroll down on ANY browser CPU goes through the roof, when I save a fucking TEXT File CPU goes through the roof, I farted and the CPU went through the roof.... so much so that I started to think one of my cards/devices or the CPU itself was going bad... so I decided to install XP pro SP3 on a separate HD to test things out and BAM!... everything works like a fucking charm...
So after the Vista started mismanaging CPU ... I tricked the shit out of that OS ... I didn't want to give up... by "trick out" I mean:
- Unplugged all devices and left the pc running with the bare minimum (basic troubleshooting step)
- Did thorough virus/spyware/adware scan
- I disabled several services that were not needed via msconfig (I know whut I am doing... no, seriously)
- Disabled the fucking dwm.exe which is the aero crappié which eats more CPU than needed especially under these conditions
- Changed the theme back to windows classic (win 2000 look)
- Disabled Superfertch which fucking pre-loads everything in RAM even when not needed
- Turned off auto defrag (scheduled defrag instead)
- Checked the Registry for errors
- Scaled back on indexed searches but ended up disabling indexing as it was also using CPU....
Well... u see where I am going... in the end I couldn't have disabled anything else without endangering the core files... but after all that .. doing anything on the pc triggered massive CPU usage (80-100%).... and as a note: normally when people have high CPU usage problems is because a service is doing stuff and they see svhost.exe eating cpu or a specific proggie is using CPU but this wasn't the case...
COMPUTER SPECS:
- RADEON all in one tv card (can't remember the model)
- P5KPL-CM Socket 775 1600FSB Intel G31 Chipset DDR2-1066 PCI.ex16 PCI.ex1 2PCI UDMA/4SATA 8-Cha. Audio Intel GMA 3100 VIDEO Gigabit LAN 8USB2.0 Micro-ATX CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale E8500 3.16GHz 6MB 1333MHz
- 1.5 TB HDDs 7200 rpm standard
- 4 Gig of Ram
.... yada yada yada.....
CONCLUSION/CLIFF NOTES....
Vista is a fucking ticking time bomb... and that is a fact that makes my balls get engorged and sticky!..... and XP SP3 is as stable and light as one needs it to be... CPU management went back to 1-30% with a shitload of tabs on FF and several other proggies open (even while playing back videos on stand alone and flash players).....
Hopefully MSFT won't fuck up Win7 as badly as Vista by including shit like that Superfetch crap or having a heavy dwm.exe .. but more importantly... not having fucked up code that makes CPU management go wild.....
With that said.. .I am downgrading my work machines to XP (because I have a bunch of custom apps that wont' work on OSX or linux OS) and installing Ubuntu + VMWare on my lappy....
Now ... as u were....
