odd problem with XP crashing every time i get on it

[jc01]

this problem has me stumped. . . i dont have a clue about what to do

THE PROB. IN A NUTSHELL
every time i get on my computer it will work fine for about 15 min. or so then it decides to slow down and crash (i dont get blue screened) the windows i have open at the time kind of work and some of my start bar menues dont work or dissappear i cannot right click anything i cannot use any of the deskto icons and i cant ctrl+alt+del at all i cant shutdown or restart windows so i am forced to use the reset button on my pc's tower

WHAT I HAVE DID TO TRY TO FIX IT
the first thing i thought of was spyware i did an update of spybot S&D and ran a scan . . . nothing then i thought virus so i used house call from trend micro and did a virus scan. . . . nothing again so then i went back to spyware and downloaded adaware and updated it . . . it found nothing! . . i didnt stop there though i went into START>RUN>MSCONFIG and and dissabled everything i didnt need this is all i have left starting up . .

atiptaxx (ATI Software)
zlclient (zone alarn free edition)
ctfmon
teatimer (spybot S&D)
adobe gamma loader
microsoft office

this is what i got rid of or allready did not have running

imjpmig
msmsgs
NeroCheck
tintsetp
tintsetp
attask
justched
winampa

once again that did not work. . . i am stumped and have no clue as what to do the only other think i have left to do is windows update i dont think it will fix my problem though (i wonder y i think that?)

ANY help at all is appreciated

cheers
jco1

PS below is a better discription of my problem







" it decides to slow down and crash"
one time i had taskman on and it registerd that nearly all the time my processor usage was 50 percent or more (i have a 2.8GHz P4 w/800Mhz FSB) (by the way as i am writhing this, it is screwing up again.)

"the windows i have open at the time kind of work"
my menue bar dosent work at all (i.e. file turns light gray ant that is it) i was going to try and get a screen cap of it but paint dosent want to work and i cant open up another web page

"some of my start bar menues dont work or dissappear"
for instance:
i click star >programs >then nothing because the programs menu dosent come up insted all i get the the windows gong sound when i click programs
some times i dont even get that all i get is everything above the programs tab everything from programs down dissapears

" i cannot right click anything i cannot use any of the deskto icons and i cant ctrl+alt+del at all i cant shutdown or restart windows"
again all i get is the gong

my setup is
P4 2.8 HT/800 MHz FSB
corsair DDR 400 XMS ram
Asus p4p800 delux mobo
ati radeon 9700 pro
WD 8MB buffer Cavair SE 120GB HDD (IDE)
XP Pro W/sp1 (i would check the exact build but i cant get to it beacuse thes stupid thing is screwing up

cheers
jc01

[LooseChippings]

Originally posted by jc01

" it decides to slow down and crash"
one time i had taskman on and it registerd that nearly all the time my processor usage was 50 percent or more (i have a 2.8GHz P4 w/800Mhz FSB)

Which Process is using the CPU%

[ted]

hmm, i have a very similar problem (see http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com...threadid=12577 post) but my system seems to work longer than yours, although i'm not sure whether it still 'fuc*s' up as been fine for a day.

well that was no help, but i have all the windows updates and still no resolve

good luck

[jc01]

thanks for the thread i read it but it kind of scared me. someone mentiond that if taskmanager did not come up that would be bad, well for me it dosent come up unless i have it open at the time of the crash. humm i still want to think that it is spyware becuse when i g to do things occasionally i get registry changes from spyware but when i run a scan i dont get anything one of the popups was a "ITBARLAYOUT" the other i dont rember. i am getting these when there are no IEwindows open. tintsetp that was starting up in msconfig i checked it and it was a file of spyware i believe but adaware and spybot S&D did not find anything . . odd hua?


i will be getting the prosses shortly i am on another computer as of right now

cheers
jc01

[inoesomestuff]

did u install any programs before this error happened? it might be a conflict

[jc01]

yeah actually i did let me try that

[ted]

i don't think that question was aimed at me, but i regulary d/l and install new programs (i have TOO many) so i dunno, but i installed AOL 9.0 (beta) which has been the cause of the problem in past but also removed and installed the normal version, but still the problem.

[inoesomestuff]

some badly written programs (this inclues many Betas) can cause software conflicts with other programs, the best solution i have found to solve this is by system restoring

[ted]

hmm... well i did a repair install so it must be a program, but in another post, i was told to turn off system restore before doing anychecks for adware for example, also the repair install removed the sys. restore files - bugger!

oh well been ok for a day, we'll see

[jc01]

ted did you have

winamp 3
aim+
photoshop
or the unreal tournament 2004 demo??

i am trying to get it to crash right now so i can see which process it is

[ted]

hmm, i have winamp 5 (upgraded from 3 i think), also photoshop and i 'think' i have some version of AIM but dont use it.

thanx for the quick reply anyway

[jc01]

what it might be if it is a program conflict is aim+ it is not made by aol insted it is a program made by big-o software that clones aim and allows you to have multiple accounts open and takes the ads and the stuff like the stock ticker out

[inoesomestuff]

did you ever figure out what was taking up all the CPU as the computer crashed?

[jc01]

ok as of right now my cpu usage is jumping between 0 to 30%, PF usage is 246 MB,& i have 1/2 a gig of ram

applications running
winamp 3
IE

processes(that are useing the cpu):
teatimer.exe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . jumping from 00-30% using 86,623K of memoryis being used
winamp3.exe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00-01% 17,348K of mem
lass.exe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00-01% 1,208K of mem
csrss.exe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00-01% 3,632K of mem
taskmgr.exe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00-01% 5,188K of mem
system idle process . . . . . . . . . . .69-99% 20K of memory

spybot search and destroys teatimer is using up the most of everything

this is getting frustrating

[inoesomestuff]

ive heard some bas stuff about v3 of spybot =/ what exactly is teatimer and what does it do?