venn wrote:it must be a firewall problem, the settings are at the lowest allowed.
i am using zone alarm pro. i love it so i won't turn it off for anything. with that said, i am not sure how to remedy this problem. do you think running xampp off of my usb drive would make a difference?
You don't need to turn it off, just disable it temporarily so you can check if it is Zone Alarm, which by the way is notorious for doing exactly what you have said you have going on with the CPU overload.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/ ... -1058.htmlMoving XAMPP to a USB stick should have no effect because as I have said Xampp or its modules have nothing to do with
...It is any application that I launch or performing an action, ie, opening msword, saving the doc, launching internet explorer...
It is a web server, an FTP server, a database server, and an mail exchanger. It will not interfere with any processes other than it's own.
The only thing I have found, and you would have seen it in the processes tab, is pv.exe. This is only used by the XAMPP Control Panel to check if the services are up and running. If it can't find a particular service it may stick and start to check every minute until it has used up all the CPU. This will be quite evident in the Processes tab.
You should check the Processes tab when you start to notice the CPU playing up. It will show you which process is using all the CPU in the CPU column. Watch it as it refreshes almost every second or so.