ButtSmiles, There is a special vaccum for the computers.............for housewives mentality like yours, there is only type of vaccum.
If you agree to clean up some porn pictures will greatly improve. - Try to see the responsible process, someone has already pointed out how to do so in the previous post. - Contact IB if the responsible process belongs to IB's application. - Try to run a defragmentation of your hard disk. It's slightly improved but not much. - Try to detect whether your computer is infected by a virus or worm. By the way, IB application is a resource eater. For example, I went to their website and just left a browser there, my CPU usage went from 1-10% to 40-50% range. The test was made under Dell Pentium 4 @ 2.66GHz 1.5GB RAM, GNU/Linux FC5, Firefox. I hope they don't use the same design style for TWS as for the website.
The good news is that a test performed under Windows XP Pro IE using the same computer (having a configuration for dual-boot Win-Linux) did not encounter any problem. The CPU usage is pretty good, around 0-5%.
I have the same comp as you do a 2.66 with 1 gig and its been running like crap. I have ran ad-ware daily and have ran norton anti virrus every other week with no problems. these 2 program totally spiked my cpu too I dont get i have done a defrag as well. my next computer will have linux.
Don't run the ad-ware, destroy this program. Ridiculously, the anti-spyware is the spyware in itself. Run Yahoo anti-spyware and cleanup from time to time is a better option. Can you snapshot the CPU usage window and include it in your next post. Don't worry too much about the spyware, president Bush has a bill for that. By the way, try a FreeScan provided by McAfee.
You may have a lot of apps running in the backgound. A lot of things like IMs, printer/ digital camera software, and media players are set to load when you start your computer. I use Spybot to turn them off in the System Startup section. You can also remove BHOs with spybot. I had all sorts of crap on my system. Spent a little time cleaning it up and it's fine. Also, I have friends on all different IMs, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, etc... AOL IM caused alot of problems, so, I removed it along with all the other IMs and downloaded Trillian. It works with most of the major IM services, doesn't automatically load when I start up my computer, and there's no pop ups.
Could you be more specific about Ad-Aware? What do you know about what this program does that it shouldn't be doing?
No, I don't have any solid proof about it nor knowing very well about it. It's just I have a friend who used to run this kind of program and his computer was very slow. Then after he had stopped running this program his computer speed was significantly improved. My computer is clean, I just use McAfee and Yahoo Anti-Spyware to scan from time to time. McAfee is in background running all the time when you're online and detect very fast when your computer is infected, especially when you went to ... where the Trojans reside. I guess another anti-virus company do exactly the same job. For Ad-ware or Anti-spyware, the rule is do not trust any software made by a non-reputable company.
I had the same problem with 100% CPU useage until I found out that my Spy Sweeper program was running in the background full time. It was causing my browser to jump and everything slowed to a crawl. Spy Sweeper was constantly snooping through my PC's guts eating up tons of RAM and CPU energy. I now run it when I want to and then shut it off. My PC came back to life. My TC2005 Trading Software (I love TC2005) eats up 100% of my CPU while downloading. My CPU is an AMD Athlon 1.47Ghz. With 256MB of RAM. I think it is time for a new system. I've been too busy making money trading to buy a new one. Ain't that a kick in the head for you? I got rid of most of the icons on my task bar. I put the icons on my desktop instead. This way they are not running constantly. I also turned off all "automatic updates." They come on at the most pain-inducing time and cause my system to almost stop. I thought snails were slow... MSCONFIG has become my best friend . -1bigsteve (o:
Isn't Norton AV itself a huge resource hog? I switched to Avast on the reco of a geek friend (or... come to think of it, maybe it was on the reco of FT71! Can't recall, but clearly remember a discussion in which a bunch of guys said Norton was a resource hog).