We bought a new Acer AS5532-5535 laptop about a month ago.
When booting, the laptop CPU was at 100% for 10 or 15 minutes. No one process was responsible. Every little process was consuming 30-50% of the CPU--taskmg.exe, dwm.exe, explorer.exe, and so on. After 10-15 minutes, it would act normally.
I tried using msconfig to disable ALL items in Startup, then ALL services. Nothing worked until I used the Device Manager to disable the Ethernet port.
The driver for that port comes with Windows 7. Acer does not provide its own. When I try to reinstall it, Windows tells me I already have the most current driver.
Acer is no help so far. I get irrelevant automated responses from tech support.
Ideas?
Thanks.
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