Services.exe issue, high cpu usage

[smokeykurt]

My services.exe has recently started spiking and using from 20-80% of my cpu randomly. Virus and adware check came up clean. I generally use Zone alarm firewall, and a script blocker addon for firefox. at this point i don't thinks its virus related. i was searching google and found a message board with this posted:

"Hi,

follow my guide here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/get-cause-high-cpu-usage-caused-apps-t140264.html

and look which dll is causing the high usage.

André"

which lead me to this message board..the link just takes me directly to the homepage, and i cant seem to find it. if anyone has any help or suggestions i would sincerely appreciate it. Also, my apologies if this topic has been covered, i looked briefly through the forums and didnt find what i was lookin for. Feel free to ask for additional information concerning my issue, or any info you think might help and i'll respond back as soon as i can,

If this helps:

Windows xp home edition

P4 2.4

1 gig ram

256mb nvidia geforce 6200

its a dell dimension 4600..i know its nothing great, this comp is just used for work related activities.

I'm wondering if theres a service thats just plain messin up..and if i can remove/repair it or whatever to drop the cpu usage back down, that would be wonderful. Normally this comp has a system process idle of 95-99%...when it starts spiking its considerably less

sincerely,

Darcy

[MagicAndre1981]

This is the correct link:

But under XP, the stackwalk is not available. You must have at least Vista to use it. Windows XP doesn't have the required ETW (Event Tracing for Windows) functions.

You can make a dump, open it with WinDbg, setup the symbol path, ran the !runaway command to see how long each thread runs, switch to the thread and use kb to show the stack. What is the thread doing?

[smokeykurt]

I havent done something like that before, could you possible give me a brief walkthrough, or a link to information for me to figure it out? thanks for your time thus far bud

[MagicAndre1981]

use this guide and create dumps:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/got-high-cpu-usage-problems-procdump-em-.aspx

and zip them and upload them please

[smokeykurt]

thank you for the information. my apologies for the long delay and response. I created the dumps and was able to figure things out..turned out to be java related...just removed the java i had..which also attached a running service with it which apparently was the issue.. disabled that service. now running a different version of java, and services.exe is sittin at 0% usage the majority of the time

just wanted to say thanks,

better late then never