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Problem upgrading to Vista on Sony Vaio laptop

its_my_dime posted on Monday, October 06, 2008 10:05 PM

My laptop came with XP but with a Vista upgrade disk.  I finally decided to
do the upgrade and am having real problems.

While the computer is light on processing power and memory (1 gig), it is
supposed to run Vista.  However, I find that it has stalled to a crawl
because my processor is always running at 100% while the memory is only in
the 60% range.  However, in SAFE MODE, the processor only runs at 20%.  So I
assume something is being loaded that is killing the processor.  I also
found that, somewhere in the normal bootup process, the processor usage
jumpted from 60% to 100%.

How do I find out what the problem is.  Does Vista have diagnostics that
shows how much processor power each process uses?  Or is there a way I can
load one file at a time while watching the processor meter to see where it
jumps?

If I can't fix this issue, I'll plan to go back to XP.

Thank you.
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Problem upgrading to Vista on Sony Vaio laptop

SIW2 posted on Monday, October 06, 2008 10:46 PM

its_my_dime;854447 Wrote:

Hi,

You might have a look under the processes tab in Task Manager and see
if that reveals anything

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/121580-task-manager-open-close-applications-processes.html

Hope it helps

SIW2


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SIW2
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Problem upgrading to Vista on Sony Vaio laptop

its_my_dime posted on Monday, October 06, 2008 11:28 PM

It looks like the problem relates to something called zerocfgsvc
application, an Intel               that leads to a file called ZCfgSvc.exe.
I don't know if this is something Vista needs, but I've disabled it and the
CPU usage has dropped from 100% to 20%!!

Thank you.
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Problem upgrading to Vista on Sony Vaio laptop

MickMurph posted on Monday, October 06, 2008 11:53 PM

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/zcfgsvc.exe.html

A bit of info about that process.
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Mad Mike
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Problem upgrading to Vista on Sony Vaio laptop

SIW2 posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:56 AM

its_my_dime;854506 Wrote:

Hi ,

That has known compatibility issues with Vista. Part of Intel utilities
for some of their wireless network cards. Suggest you check for new
drivers with your laptop manufacturer and Intel .

'Download Software, Drivers and Utilities'
(http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Default.aspx?lang=eng)

Glad it's running better now

SIW2:D :D :D


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