Hi am running winxp professional and it is a new install.

The computer opens ok but within 30secs of use it hangs for about 5 mins

In this 5 mins the cpu usage is 99 on svchost.exe.

There are 4 svchost files running in LOCAL SERVICE, NETWORK SERVICE and 2 in SYSTEM. It is one of the ones in system that is using all the cpu.

After the 5 mins, the system is fine and i can do whatever i want

Anyone know what is doing this and how to fix it?

Thanks

Look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for red X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id & Description especially of errors that seem to coincide with this issue.
Also check the Information lines that might coincide with this issue.

How to view and manage event logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP

Right I have managed to get the following information

SOURCE : Dhcp
EVENT ID: 1002
DESCRIPTION: The IP address lease 192.168.1.3 for the Network Card with network address 009096FE498C has been denied by the DHCP server 0.0.0.0 (The DHCP Server sent a DHCPNACK message).

SOURCE: Atapi
EVENT ID: 9
DESCRIPTION: The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period.

SOURCE: Aplication Hang
EVENT ID: 1002
DESCRIPTION: Hanging application iexplore.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.

I hope this is of help to you...