I just had a weird problem with one of my laptops, the CPU would ramp up to 100% and stay there from bootup on. Couldn't use the thing.

Symptoms were a VERY slow laptop, unusable, very long boot time, more than five minutes (!) and the hard drive running all the time. ctrl-alt-del and look at the processes.

Traced the problem down to the update to Adaware "Anniversary Edition" and a process called, "AAWsystem.exe" which was running wild.

Uninstalled Adaware, rebooted and all was well again.

Same program and version is still working fine on the other machines here, but that lappy is the only one running XP Pro (SP3)...


--Mac