Why does my computer keep churning

We look forward to hearing back from you on your results. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. I have Windows Vista Ultimate. What is causing this, and how do I stop it? At this rate the hard drive will burn out in no time. Please advise. This thread is locked. Replies Thereal-dbk 5 Rhenium. Hello, My bet is that this is caused by something you installed.

Hello, There could be several reasons for this. OR, it could be a combination of any of the above. What size hard drive do you have? How much free space is on the drive? How much memory is installed in the system? What version of Windows do you run? Are you sure it's dpdproxy, and not dpcproxy? How much memory do you have? Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions. Can't find what you're looking for? In Process Explorer, click on View and then select Columns to bring up a tabbed properties sheet.

You should be at the Process Image tab. Put a tick in the box next to the entry for Command Line and click OK. If you search for the file name online, numerous websites will tell you if your file has the correct size and date, and some will hazard a guess as to whether it's likely to have a virus infection.

Some virus writers like to disguise files by giving them the same names as system files, but they may be a different size or in a different directory. Either way, you can upload any file to Symantec or another other anti-virus site to get it checked. Sometimes you may find two or more processes hogging the CPU.

This can happen if two programs are operating at a low level, which is why it's not recommended to run two anti-virus programs at the same time. You might be running a child safety program or other monitoring software that Norton might reasonably suspect is doing malware-type things. You might have a program that kicks in to check mail in the background, and so on. The Microsoft Outlook Connector sometimes used to give Norton problems. See if you can update, reinstall or entirely remove whichever program appears to be causing the problem.

This includes Norton. To log any problem that you have found using Process Explorer, go to the File menu, select Save As, and save the text file call the first one procexp. If you need to go to an online support forum or have any contact with Norton, it will be much easier to paste in all or part of this file than to try to remember or describe it. Having found the process that is hogging the processor, you can now run Process Monitor to find out exactly what it's doing. The setting is at the bottom under the Settings tab.

I ran Process Monitor Procmon. This told me what that process was doing.