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I just upgraded my wife's lappy to Vista Business (32bit). Its an HP nc6320, T2400 (1.83ghz), 2gb RAM. I've installed all the appropriate video drivers, etc. and installed all updates for windows.

The issue is that the cpu is almost always at or near 100% usage (processes under resource monitor don't equal 100% but monitor and task manager as well as sidebar gadget report 100%). There is the occasional instance when it drops to idle briefly but ram usage has never increased above 32%. Furthermore, the cpu fan on the lappy is running (probably) at 100% continuously. Also, this is after several reboots.

This has me stumped. Any ideas?
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Try some of these vista guides and disable the sidebar to see if it makes a change.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/supertweaks.htm
http://www.tweakvista.com/VistaUsabilityTips.aspx

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Try some of these vista guides and disable the sidebar to see if it makes a change.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/supertweaks.htm
http://www.tweakvista.com/VistaUsabilityTips.aspx
Anth, thanks for the links. Those are both great guides and I plan I using some of those tweaks but I wanted to get the os working properly to begin with before I get to all the good stuff.
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Anth, thanks for the links. Those are both great guides and I plan I using some of those tweaks but I wanted to get the os working properly to begin with before I get to all the good stuff.
No problem, you did install Vista SP1?
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In addition to Anth0789 suggestions,you can try out this tool and see if it picks up anything.You could also use the install cd to try to repair the OS.
http://www.glarysoft.com/gu.html?tag=download#
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No problem, you did install Vista SP1?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Yup, all updates installed.
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Found something that might fix it:
http://guy.dotnet-expertise.com/Perm...3fb7b227e.aspx

You might want to check what you have starting on startup:
http://www.netsquirrel.com/msconfig/msconfig_vista.html

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In addition to Anth0789 suggestions,you can try out this tool and see if it picks up anything.You could also use the install cd to try to repair the OS.
http://www.glarysoft.com/gu.html?tag=download#
I use other apps for those purposes. That's not exactly what I'm looking for; thank you though.

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Found something that might fix it:
http://guy.dotnet-expertise.com/Perm...3fb7b227e.aspx

You might want to check what you have starting on startup:
http://www.netsquirrel.com/msconfig/msconfig_vista.html
This (Guy Barrette's Blog) helped with cpu usage A LOT. Thank you. Now all I have to do is figure out why memory usage is so low and what the hek is up with this cpu fan. Thank you again.
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