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CPU 100%

Corrosive MonkeyCorrosive Monkey Registered User regular
edited November 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
My CPU is currently 100%, I know it's because of an update to my firewall (comodo). My problem is that my computer basically locks up a couple of minutes after start up not giving me enough time to remove the firewall. Are there any quick ways to remove programs?

edit: Also, the main process CMDagent is taking up my CPU but when I try to end it says I do not have the right permission, even though I am an admin on my PC, so a way around this would also help.

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  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Have you tried starting your computer in safe mode?

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  • Corrosive MonkeyCorrosive Monkey Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Not yet.

    Will that stop the firewall from starting so that I can get rid of it?

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  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Corrosive Monkey wrote: »
    Not yet.

    Will that stop the firewall from starting so that I can get rid of it?

    Most probably.

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  • Corrosive MonkeyCorrosive Monkey Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    ok, thanks

    Will go do that now, and report back with what happens

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  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Good luck to you.

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  • Corrosive MonkeyCorrosive Monkey Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    computer is running much faaster now,

    thank you so much Apothe0sis

    but when I start up windows, I get a little message the system config utility is currently in selective / diagnostic mode. Go and select normal startup to start windows normally and get rid of the changes I made. Or i can tick a box saying don't show the message or launch the system config utility when windows starts. Should I do either of these or just ignore it?

    again thankyou

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  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    You don't want to run in safe mode regularly, it's got too many things disabled. You just want to use it to fix whatever is going wrong - roll back your firewall or untinstall it or whatever you want. Once you fix that you want to go back to regular mode.

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