After connecting to my wireless network at home, my cpu utilisation was constantly at 100%. I thought I must've had a trojan, so I ran nod32 and it found 3 virus's and a trojan. I thought I'd solved the problem but the cpu was still at 100%, it wouldn't budge from there.
I started turning of processes till there was nothing running but system, local and network services, and the belkin wireless utility. It was still at 100%. Note that cpu utilisation was split between the "system" process and "belkinwcui.exe" (belkin wireless utility) at a ratio of approximately 60/40.
So I turned off belkincui.exe and the cpu went down to 2%. I found the problem but now I had no network. I restarted the belkin utility, went into options and changed the setting that determines whether my wireless adapter will use the belkin utility or the windows xp wireless utility. Then I reconnected to the network using windows' wireless utility. I then exited the belkin utility again and my system was running fine at only 1-2% cpu utilisation.
I tried to uninstall the belkin utility completely, but it automatically uninstalls your adapter drivers as well. So you just have to keep it installed, remove it from your startup programs, and let windows handle your network connection.
Maybe it works fine for other people. This is just a "heads up" to anyone having similar trouble.
Windows XP SP2
Pentium 4 1.8Ghz Northwood
256 ram
Belkin Wireless USB Adapter F5D7051
I started turning of processes till there was nothing running but system, local and network services, and the belkin wireless utility. It was still at 100%. Note that cpu utilisation was split between the "system" process and "belkinwcui.exe" (belkin wireless utility) at a ratio of approximately 60/40.
So I turned off belkincui.exe and the cpu went down to 2%. I found the problem but now I had no network. I restarted the belkin utility, went into options and changed the setting that determines whether my wireless adapter will use the belkin utility or the windows xp wireless utility. Then I reconnected to the network using windows' wireless utility. I then exited the belkin utility again and my system was running fine at only 1-2% cpu utilisation.
I tried to uninstall the belkin utility completely, but it automatically uninstalls your adapter drivers as well. So you just have to keep it installed, remove it from your startup programs, and let windows handle your network connection.
Maybe it works fine for other people. This is just a "heads up" to anyone having similar trouble.
Windows XP SP2
Pentium 4 1.8Ghz Northwood
256 ram
Belkin Wireless USB Adapter F5D7051