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Question

How do I stop the computers CPU and Memory being used

Jan 5, 2015 3:14AM PST

Hello,

I have an issue that I am hoping someone can assist me with, I'm running Windows 7 Home Prem, 64 bit.

When the Laptop is sitting in idle with the Wi-Fi switched off, the Processor and Memory usage are normal, as displayed in Windows Task Manager.

When the Wi-Fi is switched on, while observing task manager processes, a number of CTF loaders (ctfmon.exe) appear briefly within the process window leaving behind a number of (I have seen several) Windows Explorer processes (explorer.exe). These processes then expand in CPU percentage and memory usage, I have seen CPU~40% and MEM ~1.2GB, until the numerous explorer.exe processes have consumed all capacity (even although there are no human used applications running).

Now I don't play about with these things but my anti-virus software has been rather busy over the last week or so and my computer over the last 24 hours has, as mentioned above, next to no capacity to do anything else. Apart from the anti-virus software doing (or trying) to do its job this is what I have observed.

I would greatly appreciate any and all positive inputs.

Thank you

Regards
Tom

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