[Gurdit]

Hello,

This is my first post here, and any help or suggestions would be highly appreciated.

I am running the following configuration:

• Windows Vista Home Basic
• HP Pavilion dv-4 1211TU Laptop
• Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.0Ghz 2.0Ghz, 2MB Cache
• 3 GB RAM (I think DDR2)
• Norton AntiVirus (ver 16.5)...the one that comes with the default installation...some 60-day trial period or something.
• 320 GB Hard disk

For the last couple of days, I've been running an application called DC++ which allows me to share files with others on my college LAN network. My I have downloaded about 57 GB from others, and my current free space on my solitary drive is around 50GB (52GB of 286GB free).

For the last 2-3 days, the system has been a little sluggish, particularly if I run DC++. When I run DC++, the CPU usage goes up to 100% and the computer becomes very slow.

Right now, I'm not running DC++, but my CPU usage is still hovering around 60%. Windows Task Manager is saying that explorer.exe is using about 40-45%

Is it normal for explorer.exe to use this much CPU? RAM usage is only at around 50%.

Also, a couple of days ago, Norton found a Backdoor.Trojan on a computer on my LAN, but can't delete it because access is denied, obviously. However, that file is not on my computer. Can it still affect my PC's behaviour?

Also, I don't shut down my computer regularly. I hit the power button, which I thought was putting it into hibernate, but it was really just putting it to sleep instead. Does not shutting down the PC regularly make it consume more CPU?

Or have I just taken a ****ty laptop with a ****ty processor which is incapable of handling a few applications?

[TerryNet]

This is my first post here, and any help or suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Please read the forum rules before your second post. Here's the one that applies to this post:

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