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CPU being flooded with useless programs
It's hard for me to explain my problem, but I'll try. Essentially, about a week or so ago I noticed that my computer randomly began lagging. I checked Task Manager and sure enough my CPU Usage was at about 90%, just from being on Google Chrome. Dumbfounded, I looked at the screen, and the Usage began rising and falling rapidly, going anywhere from 60% to 99% in a few seconds. I looked at the processes and saw a few things jumping around from 00-14% usage. Things like: Microsoft Connection Manager Monitor, COM Surrogate, Microsoft DirectPlay8 Server, Microsoft DirectPlay Helper, Host Process for Windows Services, and more. All things along these lines. So next I casually went through and end each process of the "bouncers" and my computer went back to normal performance. Eventually though it went back up and the same process was repeated. In addition to this, if I open my Volume Mixer, a lot of these applications (or whatever they are) are open and periodically more are opened, and some are closed. This is my situation, I have no idea what to do, please help me!