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"dacoup" <dacoup@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:993EA6AE-25CB-47BC-B7D2-060F7E14E52E@microsoft.com...
> My computer frequently gets into a situation where a process locks up the
> system by running away with the CPU. The process usually shows up in Task
> Manager running explorer.exe, though sometimes it's iexplore.exe or the
> login
> program.
>
> When this happens I can't kill the process with Task Manager or Process
> Explorer. It's also not possible to logout at this point. The only
> solution
> is to do a hard power down.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any particular pattern to what triggers the
> runaway
> process, though the situation seems to occur frequently during user login.
> Sometimes we never get past the screen where we click on the user name to
> start the login.
>
> Any ideas?