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mscorsvw.exe using 100% of cpu - Windows xp

Anonymous
2011-06-16T12:06:44+00:00

Yesterday my computer completed 17 automatic updates.  Ever since, my computer has been bogged down and keeps freezing.  The CPU is at 100% just about all the time.  I see there are 2 mscorsvw entries in the task manager.  I have tried to stop it without success.  I followed instructions for getting to the command prompt but it keeps giving an error message when I try to do the ngen.exe executequeueditems process.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-06-20T10:40:50+00:00

    Thanks for your suggestion.  I tried everything  do without success.  Finally I pulled my hard drive out and installed it as a second drive in another computer.  I then ran scans using Spybot, Malware and AdAware.  AdAware found 13 malicious infections, Spybot found one.  After that, it worked perfectly.

    Furthermore - I installed Revo Uninstaller (the pro version with a 30 day free trial) - and ran all the components.  The program cleaned up the disk beautifully and it is now running better than ever.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-06-16T13:38:26+00:00

    That cursed thing...  It's "supposed" to do its things and then go away but it often consumes all the CPU cycles and seems to never go away.  Being that you tried to run the ngen.exe executequeueditems I take it that you already visited sites like this one  I suggest that you set the .NET Runtime Optimization Service to manual start or that you disable it altogether.

    John

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