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  The Case of the Slooooow System
Time: 06:00 EST/11:00 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Mark Russinovich: A few weeks ago my wife complained that her Vista desktop was not responding to her typing or mouse clicks. Given the importance of the customer, I immediately sat down at the system to troubleshoot. It wasn’t completely hung, but extremely sluggish. For example, the mouse moved and when I clicked on the start button the start menu opened after about 30 seconds. I suspected that something was hogging the CPU and likely could have resolved the problem simply by logging off or rebooting, but knew that if I didn’t determine the root cause and address it, she’d likely be calling on my technical support services again in the near future. In any case, stooping to that kind of troubleshooting hack is beneath my dignity. I therefore set out to investigate.

My first step was to run Process Explorer to see which process was using the CPU. After a few minutes Process Explorer finally appeared and showed that not one, but two processes were involved, each consuming 50% of the CPU: Iexplore.exe and Dllhost.exe. Iexplore is Internet Explorer (IE) and I suspected that IE itself wasn’t the problem, but that it was a browser helper object (BHO), ActiveX control, or some other plugin loaded into IE. Similarly, Dllhost.exe is the host process for out-of-process COM server DLLs, so it was probably not at fault, but the COM server loaded into it. Both required digging deeper and I decided to tackle IE first.

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