Guest rjbsec Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Could possibly also be a W32 virus or a load of rubbish in the registry - try regsupreme pro 30-day trial to clean the registry.http://www.macecraft.com/downloads/ In case you missed the previous post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 In case you missed the previous post. Nah, I got it, all seeing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cyberprog Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I'm post SP4 here so that should be sorted. There's a couple of other MS KB's that say things about SERVICES.EXE at 100% but they have all been attended to in previous service packs.I'm wondering if it's the hosts file causing this as it has recently grown to a fair size, although this has happened before that was done but it's become more frequent since. If you're post SP4 then I assume you're running 2000, you should consider upgrading to XP as it runs faster on comparative hardware with better support for games I've had machines with identical specs with the two OS's and XP always wins over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 If you're post SP4 then I assume you're running 2000, you should consider upgrading to XP Absolutely no chance whatsoever at all in the slightest ever thankyou! All 6 machines here are running W2K Pro and that's that, end of. Might just reinstall it anyway, startup and shutdown is getting slower by the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WatchdogSecurity Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Does the latop ever shut down on its own ie something like " Services.exe has encountered a serious error and will be shut down" Watchdog Security (Manchester) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Does the latop ever shut down on its own ie something like " Services.exe has encountered a serious error and will be shut down" Nope, runs absolutely fine apart from occasionaly hanging with services at 100% for a minute or so. Other than that, everything is as normal, can't see anything out of place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WatchdogSecurity Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Spyware removal tools can cause 100% utilization, try the following: 1) edit your C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file using notepad 2) if you have more than a dozen entries, you are using some software to defeat PopUp advertisements that creates a static DNS record in your hosts file that associates the advertising site with your computer's IP lookback address 3) delete this file or replace it with the original that your software has renamed to hosts.bak or some similar name 4) reboot 5) this should fix your SERVICES.EXE CPU problem All you should have in there is your loopback address really.... Let me know how you get on. Dean Watchdog Security (Manchester) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 I've come to the conclusion it could be the hosts file too, there's hundreds of entries in there. Useful, but not if it makes the laptop useless. I put it all there to stop it spending ages downloading loads of ads when I'm using it through GPRS, works well apart from the fact it kills the laptop. I've cut it back down to 4 entries, see what happens there......... Fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpaengineer Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 have a look in reg at HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run and see if there are any keys in there that load the namely Services.exe file. If there is it should give you some indication as to whether its a 'bogus' services.exe running from a different location to the systems services.exe. If you get What i mean Trade Member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 All looks tickety boo in there. Seems to be running OK atm, think it may have been the hosts file. Bloody Windows. /goes off to put together new Linux server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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