OT: Help!

[arf9999]

Could one of you propellerheads help me out. My home PC is giving me grief. Something is running in the background, and using up all my resources, constantly accessing the HDD. I've scanned for viruses, worms, adware, spyware etc... but nothing is found. I've had this intermittently since I updated Windows, but tonight it is really bad.

I thought it could be Mozilla Firefox (ver 0.9.2) as it is not final version, but I uninstalled it and the problem continued. I checked task manager to see what processes are using lots of resources, and the only one that looks strange is cidaemon.exe, which was using about 15Megs of memory. I think it is a Windows component, but what does it do? As a test, I killed the process and immediately my PC speeded up. However when I restarted MS Iexplorer, cidaemon started up again, and my PC slowed down again. I reinstalled Firefox, and killed cidaemon and Internet explorer and the PC seems fine again. Any ideas?

Extra info: WinXP Home sp1, Norton Internet Security.





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[pjbmm]

This is just an indexing service used by windows to peform fast searches on your pc, to disable
click Start, search, for files and folders, change preferences, select with indexing service, and select no

This should disable this service on your pc

 

[noswal]

In loss98 you can run MSconfig, I assume XP has that? that defines the startup background programs, you can uncheck those.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=cidaemon
Process File: cidaemon or cidaemon.exe
Process Name: Microsoft Indexing Service
Description: Indexing Service that runs in the background and catalogs files so that you can search for files containing a specific text string.
Company: Microsoft Corp.

Go to my computer and right click on the (NTFS) drives. Click properties and uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" in the General tab. Repeat for all your (NTFS) drives

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[arf9999]

Thanks

I wish I had this kind of service from the Sentech call centre!

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[arf9999]

Oh Jeez my member just became Senior! []

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[noswal]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by arf9999</i>
<br />Oh Jeez my member just became Senior! []

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Well yes, doesn't mean you have gained wisdom, just have a lot to say

6 posts behind you

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[arf9999]

Confucious say: You speak lots of sh#t, your garden grow very well.

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[guest2013-1]

My pc has the same trouble, but it is getting hogged by update.exe for some reason... i just stop the process

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!

 

[arf9999]

Updating XP via MyWireloss took me 12 hours of downloading, and the actual installation took about an hour. Up 'til then I had no problems, but I think there may be some small bug in the service pack that started this cidaemon problem. I've disabled it as suggested and my system is flying again .

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[Donovan]

I found the simple solution. Buy a Mac.

LOL sorry I couldn't resist []

 

[arf9999]

lol... but what would I do with all my spare time?

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[gripen]

wait for things to download. what else?

 

[groenie]

LOL I'd love to see what noone's member will become when his posts reach 1000. Perhaps Porn King Member? []

 

[MyLowBandwidth]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by groenie</i>
<br />LOL I'd love to see what noone's member will become when his posts reach 1000. Perhaps Porn King Member? []
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least theres one good thing to the kac speeds, it makes for a lot of comedy!!!!!!

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