Remember that XP is not an OS to drop to zero percent and stay there. If this is what you want, then its the wrong OS to achieve such an effect.
Also notable are firewalls will get rather busy as packets arrive, log files are written and more.
Then we have the WORM problem. A new owner of XP will not know that as delivered, XP is ready to be invaded by some dozen or more worms such as Nach, Welchia, MS Blaster and more varients. What a new owner will also not know is that an Antivirus does not stop the worm from infecting the machine. Only by installing a firewall or using ICF can you stop that issue as well as patching the OS immediately.
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Hi everyone.
Firstly I apologise for not being too knowledgeable on the jargon, my pc know is very limited.
Anyway problem is my new pc intermitently runs very slowly and at such times the task manager shows the processor running at 95-100% but for no obvious reason.
This is even when no applications are open and I can associate no other activity with it. The suppliers have already changed the processor which seemed to cure it but for only a day. They are a bit stumped.
System info is AMD 2.4G, winXP prof, 512DDR memory.
System information gives:
x86 family model 8 Stepping 1 Authentic AMD 1999Mhz
as the processor info.
Hope someone can advise. Thanks

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