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Old 01-16-2005, 09:58 PM
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Why is aim using up to 99% of my cpu usage? It slows everything down and locks things up. Anyone else have this problem. I have windows xp home edition and aim 5.5.

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Old 01-16-2005, 10:53 PM
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Are you sure that it really is AIM? Right-click on your Taskbar and hit Task Maanger. Go to the Processes tab, find "aim.exe" and tell me how many KB it's using up.
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Old 01-16-2005, 11:11 PM
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Hello and yes it is aim bc i look at the taskbar and its always spiking to 50% and before i caught it at 99%. It fluctuates.

Any help would be great. thanks
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Old 01-16-2005, 11:35 PM
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You look at the taskbar? The taskbar doesn't show on program's CPU Usage, usually. Follow my diections I posted in my last post and tell me the number of KB its using.
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Old 01-18-2005, 01:29 PM
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Old 01-19-2005, 06:52 AM
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Step-by-step directions:

Press: Alt-Ctrl-Dlt
Click on the tab that says processes
Look for "aim.exe"
Report the numbers under "CPU" and "Mem Usage"
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Old 02-12-2005, 10:48 PM
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today my cpu usage was 92% and 22,346 memory used when i checked it bc it was misbehaving. though it often spikes to 50% and i cant remember the memory used at that time. also now an error message is popping up outta nowhere every once in awhile. i hope thats enough info that someone can help.

sorry it took awhile to get back to u -i had to make an emergency trip to florida for family.

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Old 02-13-2005, 02:12 AM
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he wanted to know how much AIM took up. The entire CPU's Usage doesn't help much.
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Old 02-13-2005, 03:42 PM
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okay...ummm task manager....and info under the processes tab for aim.exe....thats what i gave...if i am still wrong let me know

under the processes tab
image name = aim.exe
user name = owner
cpu =50
mem usage = 22,346k

i have no add-ons or plug-ins
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Old 02-13-2005, 09:35 PM
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running DeadAIM and Middleman as add-on for AIM will do that.
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