Posted February 16, 201410 yr Seems like alot of people have this problem. It's been happening to me I think for the last month or so. I'm using a pretty old and shaky Win XP Home. I had Avast, and Comodo firewall, then about a year ago I uninstalled them ( used the uninstall utility I think) and installed MSE (and use windows firewall), after getting BSOD help in this thread http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-system/bsod-help-please/e9c32b57-9a60-44f6-b684-dd38fe182064 I flashed my bios and that solved my bsod issues. Pretty sure this high cpu issue is fairly recent. I tried this advice I found Now go to your Microsoft Security Essentials, click on the "Settings" tab. Select "Excluded files and locations" Browse to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\MsMpEng.exe", Ok and press Add button to add the file to your list of excluded files and locations. Press Save changes button. another thing I tried was doing a full scan, still have the problem. I use spybot, malarebytes, spyware blaster, superantispyware, and have winpatrol. last year I installed hard Drive Inspector Pro http://www.altrixsoft.com/en/hddinsp/ , other then that nothing has been added recently. hope someone can help! Continue reading...
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