100% CPU with latest Access Connections

[jgrobertson]

I have see the CPU go to 100% for a long time, 15 minutes or so, after boot up or waking up and it seams that it was Access Connections (the latest version for Vista) that was causing the problem.

This only showed up after I started using a manual DUN set up for tethering to my Cell Phone for internet access. That manual setup is with the built in Vista networking and it must cause a conflict with AC.

Anyone else having this issue?

Is AC really necessary with Vista?

This is with two machines, A T60P (Vista 64) and a T43P (Vista 32).

Actually I have not been able to get the tethering to work on the T60P but I have seen the 100% CPU a lot.

[jdhurst]

I assume you mean AC V4.52, and I do not see that issue (CPU High) on a T61p Vista 64-bit machine (mine) or a T4x WinXPP client machine. ... JDH

[jgrobertson]

I assume you mean AC V4.52, and I do not see that issue (CPU High) on a T61p Vista 64-bit machine (mine) or a T4x WinXPP client machine. ... JDH

I only saw this after, using the Cell phone modem tethered to the Thinkpad T43p. To do that I used the basic Vista communication functions to set up the modem and connect. After that connection is shut down, then the problem occurs when AC is installed.

On the T60P, similar except that I have never been able to get the Cell phone modem connection to connect to AT&T (modem connection is fine).

[Crunch]

Yes, I have the same issue with Access Connections 4.5.2. I don't use it, and the only reason I found out was when I included it as a tool to try to tweak my wireless-N setup. It turned out to be useless, though, and to boot, it heated up my CPU every time I had it running.

[jgrobertson]

On that machine, I had Norton 360 installed too (Vista 32). Likewise, it would peg the CPU and 100% and effectively lock up the machine. On my Vista 64 machines I use Kaspersky, which is also a hog but better behaved than Norton.

As a side bar to this, I am not really comfortable using an Anti-virus product from a Russian company owned by a former KGB person on computers made by a company owned by the Communist Chinese government. Both Russia and China are conducting active espionage in the US and how better to get into computers than by having design control of the hardware or the AV product.

[jgrobertson]

This is follow up to my original post. I have subsequently reinstalled Vista and all the drivers from Lenovo and now Access Connections works great. It even manages my tethered Cell Phone Modem.

There must have been a lot of garbage hanging around from the earlier days. I don't understand why MS does not get things set up so that ALL unused, old, uninstalled files AND registry data is removed automatically.