Satellite T130-10T: high CPU usage for no apparent reason

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• Satellite L500-1XL - high CPU usage all the time

  Hi all

  I've owned the L500-1XL for over a year now and I recently encountered a new problem: for the last few weeks, the laptop everything can become very, very slowly. Everything I do, the laptop freezes and may stop responding for a few minutes at a time. Regardless of the application I see is to do so in the process manager, stop it, but then another application steals all CPU - this isn't a particular application...

  -I'm crazy about security and make quick analyses and complete analyses frequently, including spyware and rootkits scans startup
  -I update drivers all the time, but have already re-installed all the drivers that came with the laptop and no change.
  -J' recently added more RAM and a new hard drive internal, but this problem existed before the new facilities
  -J' tried SP1 installation integrated in a Windows 7 disc and installed, and I noticed the problem of CPU for the first time then. If after that when I put in new hard drive I used the Windows Installer disc which is come with the laptop instead and in no time the problem comes back.
  -J' have uninstall the applications that I don't use and there is not a lot of new applications on my laptop that I am not familiar
  -J' tried it a bit on the internet and it is a very common problem, but I still don't know what to do

  This happened to someone? Someone at - it ideas? I would be very grateful, it starts to drive crazy me! My laptop is not my laptop when it wastes my time...!

  Hmm hard to say what's wrong here
  In the Task Manager, you can check the process that locks the CPU and use the whole performance of the CPU.
  You can google for this .exe to know what software or application uses this process.

  Theoretically, it could also be a virus

• Win7 gadgets (sidebar) slow and intensive CPU lately, for no apparent reason

  In recent days, all my Win7 Gadgets react very slowly; The Process Explorer and Task Manager indicate that SIDEBAR. EXE is to eat about 10% of the 8 Virtual cores (4 physical) of my CPU i7, one of the nuclei between 0 and 100% just for this process. Among the consequences: fast battery drain and the unnecessary fan noise.

  So far I have tested the following workaround solutions, without success:

  • Out all the gadgets / reload one by one
  • kill the process from the sidebar / restart the Panel gadgets
  • Restart the PC
  • run with Avira AV disabled
  • run without internet access
  • run without connected devices (wireless, USB, etc...)
  • remove the settings.ini and cache in %localappdata%\microsoft\Windows Sidebar (suggested in other threads on such responses)

  I have a few third-party gadgets, each of them has worked perfectly so far (and none have been updated these last time).

  I can't think of any change in my system lately (software, drivers, etc.), which could have caused this.

  Murder sidebar.exe immediately pushes the CPU counters to zero. As soon as I open the Panel of gadgets or load any of the built-in gadgets one or a third party, the problem starts.

  Win7/64 SP1 and Avira Antivirus are completely up to date.

  BIOS and drivers are up-to-date (precision M4700)

  Thanks for any advice.

  (cross-posted question on the Microsoft Answers and Avira forums)

  Gadgets have proved to be insecure long time. Should have uninstalled all the.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Gadgets

• Qosmio F60 - alert constantly high CPU usage

  Hello

  About 12 months ago, I bought a Toshiba Qosmio F60 computer laptop 6 GB.

  When exploring using games, facebook etc, I am constantly alert of my Norton informing that there is high CPU usage.

  I have asked around locally and advised to delete Norton because this may be the problem. I'm not eager to do what my subscription is still valid.

  I also learned the other day that this is a common problem with laptops Toshiba using 'Explorer' and that I should use "Mozilla Firefox" instead which would correct the problem.

  I am trying to arrange this.

  Can you please indicate if it is a regular problem with Toshiba laptops and reviewing the options above to try to address this problem.

  It doesn't really seem to my computer, it goes more slowly and when in the Manager tasks, it is constantly fluctuating between 5 and 35%

  I look forward for your reply.

  Thank you

  Melissa

  Hello

  This isn't a problem laptop buddy
  Norton AntiVirus is a good antivirus program, but it uses a lot of resources and my experience locks the CPU.

  I removed this antivirus software and now I m using the avast and Avira Antivir free Antivirus software. Both are freeware software.

  But I still use Internet Explorer. Of course, I also installed the firefox and chrome. All these three browsers are great.

• DAQmx read results 2 ms/s in high CPU usage

  I have an application that reads the 32 channels of 2 ms/s analog input signals, at the same time. The actual hardware will be: SMU-8135 Win7, chassis SMU-1071, 2 x SMU-6368 (16 channels). The SMU-two 6368 will provide 32 channels data acquisition.

  I don't have the material at the moment, but I've been estimate the processor on the alternative configurations needs, because I have concerns about the use of the CPU to data acquisition high speed. Two alternative configurations are:

  (1) SMU-8133 (quad core) WinXP, SMU-1062 q, PXI-6133.

  (2) PXI-8106 (dual-core) WinXP, PXI-6133, PXI-1042.

  Note: PXI-6133 supports high speed HAVE 2 ms/s, at the same time.

  I wrote a simple continuous data acquisition software to allow me to compare the CPU usage. The sample rate and the number of channels are configurable. What I found is:

  (1) at low sampling frequency, for example 100 kech. / s, the CPU usage is minimal on both configurations (bicoeur or image), regardless of the number of channels is 1 or 8. The reading of the CPU was about 1-4%

  (2) at high sampling frequency, for example 2 ms/s, what is the number of channels used, either 1 or 8, the CPU utilization was 50% for dual core and 25% for the quad core, IE. a full core has been fully utilized.

  (3) the passage of the low use of the processor (<5%) to="" high="" cpu="" usage="" (="">45%) increases when the sampling rate is rather steep and shows interesting channel-dependence (note the following has been achieved with a PXI-8106 controller, dual-core).

  • @1 channel, it happened between 950 to 970 k
  • @2 channels, it happened between 470 to 480 k
  • @4 channels, it happened between 230 to 240 k,.
  • @8 channels, it happened between 120 to 130 k.

  This model reminds me of buffer length related question but I double checked a sufficient length of the buffer was used. He suggested also, surprising a few traffic jams occurred when the amount of data increases up to certain level.

  My question is, is this a problem with this particular card (PXI-6133) or driver DAQmx (9.5.5f4). How the problem is when I'm doing an acquisition of 32 channels?

  For your information, I have attached the benchmarking software.

  Thank you!

  Donghui Yin

  I followed this example code (see link below) and used based on events DAQmx, now the excessive CPU utilization problem has been resolved. Playback from the CPU is now less than 10 percent, while it could be 50% (in the case of dual-core) or 25% (case of hearts) at the same sample rate and number of channels.

  http://zone.NI.com/DevZone/CDA/EPD/p/ID/5911

• High CPU usage by "System outages" and missing keystrokes in IE on all new HP laptop 15-r085nd

  I recently bought a HP15-r085nd (Win 8.1 with Bing), and right out of the box, I encountered this problem:

  After the awakening of the mode (usually after the first time to wake from sleep mode, but always after the second time), the process "System outages" has high utilization of the processor, up to 45%. The laptop then responds very, very slow. In addition, in Internet Explorer (but only in Internet Explorer, it seems!) strikes are missing out.

  I tried the following:

  -Implementation of all the updates of Windows, all McAfee updates and all of the updates from HP Assistent. No results.

  -Reinstall all the drivers, no results. Windows system restore: no result. Factory reset the recovery partition: no result. Then implemented all the updates again: no result.

  -J' tried to use Microsoft Xperf to diagnose the problem: it seems wdf0100.sys to blame for the high CPU usage. (In other words, if I have interpreted the results in the right way).

  -J' then did some troubleshooting with Microsoft Support: they asked me to disable all startup items in the Task Manager and disable all non-Microsoft services in msconfig. The result was that the high CPU usage of "System interrupts" occurred less frequently after the first time out of the way 'sleep', but still she always had after the second time to wake off mode 'sleep'. Uninstallation of McAfee seems to have the same effect, by the way.

  -J' then did some troubleshooting with the store were I bought it. They used a pilot program to install newer versions of the drivers. Also, in vain.

  Then they gave me another laptop of the same model (r085nd). It had exactly the same problems. So I think that all laptops of this model have the same problem! Does anyone know of a similar case with a laptop similar?

  -J' then did some troubleshooting with HP support. We have updated the BIOS (F.24), without result. We have made a few updates to additional drivers on the HP site, no results. We wanted to update the graphic driver Intel HD (sp65598), but we couldn't install it, an error message saying: minimum system requirements were not satisfied.

  I hope that the HP support can arrive at a solution (they wanted to deepen this). If so, I'll promise to post it here, because it affects probably other r085nd HP as well.

  In the mean time, I'd appreciate any suggestions, because I'm totally confused now. Someone at - it ideas? I will answer all the answers!

  I was contacted by HP Support again. After a new series of updates which included some updates everything new on the site of HP is solved the problem with high CPU usage by "system outages"!

  We have done several updates, so I know not that exactly solved the problem, but it is those:

  -New firmware BIOS: version F.33 (my bet would be that is the one that solves the problem)

  -New Intel chipset driver: 1.20 (sp69575.exe)

  -New driver Intel HD Graphics: 1.20 (sp69589.exe): 10.18.10.3958 (this one tried earlier, without solving the problem)

  -New driver Realtek card reader: 1.20Ap3 (sp69610.exe)

  I hope this helps other people with the same problem.

  Thanks to the HP Support team for their help with this problem!

  Moreover, the problem of lack of strikes in Internet Explorer (more use of CPU (any reason), the sequences of keys more are not registered!) still exists! I work around this problem by using Google Chrome. Again, I hope that this issue might get resolved as well! I nevertheless marks it as "Resolved" as the main problem is resolved.

• problem with high CPU usage audiodg.exe

  While playing the game, I get a message saying that I raised the CPU usage 99% of the base. This is caused by "audiodg.exe. I tried a few bugs that I found online. I was told that they would not work with my computer. I have a Dell XPS15 second-generation i5. Has anyone experience this problem?

  Hello

  1. what you did to solve the problem?

  audiodg.exe [Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation] file hosts the audio engine for Vista and Window s 7.

  All DSP [Digital Signal Processing] and audio processing is done within this file. Suppliers are able to install their own audio effects and DSP in the audio pipeline, which is then processed by audiodg.exe

  In order to correct the high CPU usage, disable audio enhancements addressed by the file audiodg.exe. To disable the audio improvements, follow these steps:
  a. right click on the speaker in the lower corner icon right.

  b. Select the playback device from the menu. A list of devices should appear on the screen.

  c. double-click the device that has a green check mark. The properties for the device windows should open.

  d. click the improvements at the top.

  e. in the list of improvements, uncheck all the, or check Disable all improvements.

  f. click on the OK button to save your changes and close the window.

  g. click OK to close the devices window of reading.

  I would also say that you use resource monitor to monitor the CPU usage.

  Resource monitor is a tool that allows you to analyze the use of the CPU, disk, network, and memory in real time.

  You can use the performance tab in the Manager of tasks to see how the CPU of your computer is used by Windows and other programs running on your computer.

  Reference:

  See use of CPU utilization and other performance information

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/view-CPU-utilization-and-other-performance-information

• searchindexer.exe extermemly high CPU usage - days

  Not sure that to do, I rebuilt the index, manually deleted the record of data to index, completely removed, rebooted, and then reinstalled Windows Search from the Add/Remove Windows features, I also chkdsk/f had my records.

  When the Searchindexer.exe uses as much CPU as she can I checked with resource monitor and it is not read to leave or by writing to all files, just chip away cycles CPU.

  Edit: more information

  I created a dump of the searchindexer.exe and its opening with a debugger tool, it is the content

  Microsoft (R) Windows debug 6.2.9200.16384 AMD64 Version
  Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  Loading dump file [S:\Tools\SearchIndexer.exe.dmp]
  User Mini with full memory dump file: only application data is available

  Symbol search path is: * invalid *.
  ****************************************************************************
  * Loading of the symbol may be unreliable without a symbol search path.           *
  * Use .symfix to get the debugger to choose a symbol path.                   *
  * After adjusting your path to symbols, use .reload to refresh the locations of symbols. *
  ****************************************************************************
  Executable search path is:
  Windows 8 Version 9200 MP (8 procs) free x 64
  Product: WinNt, suite: SingleUserTS
  By: 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725 - 1247)
  Computer name:
  The debugging session: Sun Nov 4 22:01:24.000 2012 (UTC - 07:00)
  System Uptime: 0 days 10:09:39.102
  Running time: 0 days 0:54:31.000
  .........................................................
  Loading unloaded module list
  ..........
  ERROR: The symbol file is not found.  Defaulted to export symbols ntdll.dll.
  ERROR: The symbol file is not found.  By default for exporting symbols for KERNELBASE.dll -.
  ntdll! NtWaitForSingleObject + 0xa:
  000007fc ' ret 5b172c2a c3

  also, I checked the thread problem in hacker process, here is the stack:

  0, ntoskrnl.exe! SeAccessCheck + 0x1ef
  1, ntoskrnl.exe! KeDelayExecutionThread + 0xc32
  2, ntoskrnl.exe! KeWaitForSingleObject + 0x1cf
  3, ntoskrnl.exe! _misaligned_access + 0 x 809
  4, ntoskrnl.exe! SeAccessCheck + 0 x 280
  5, ntoskrnl.exe! SeAccessCheck + 0x4d1
  6, korwbrkr.dll! DllUnregisterServer + 0x2f48
  7, korwbrkr.dll! DllUnregisterServer + 0x243e
  8, korwbrkr.dll + 0 x 12173
  9, korwbrkr.dll! DllUnregisterServer + 0 x 1696
  10, korwbrkr.dll! DllUnregisterServer + 0x62f9
  11, korwbrkr.dll! DllUnregisterServer + 0 x 6117
  12, korwbrkr.dll! DllUnregisterServer + 0x5db9
  13, korwbrkr.dll! DllUnregisterServer + 0 x 5882
  14, korwbrkr.dll! DllUnregisterServer + 0x6fa0
  15, mssrch.dll! DllGetClassObject + 0x3feba
  16, mssrch.dll + 0 x 19425
  17, kernel32.dll! BaseThreadInitThunk + 0x1a
  18, ntdll.dll. RtlUserThreadStart + 0x21

  I also deleted my Outlook data files and started from scratch with my emails, and makes sure the data folders are not on a concert.

  I installed all the updates that are available for Windows 8 and I also ran sfc/scannow.

  I would be grateful if anyone could offer any help at all, thank you.

  Hi entire,

  disable the service in the Services, restart the computer and then re-enable the service.

  I tried, I completely uninstalled from Windows Add/Remove Features service, rebooted the PC and re - he added, and same deal.

  Anyway I found is what the problem is, it's the korwbrkr.dll, it seems to be related to a Korean dictionary, as if the indexer is you are trying to index something with characters Koreans inside (not aware that I have something like that), and he throws a loop for I renamed the korwbrkr.dll to korwbrkr.bak and it has linked the dictionary file and removed from the search index and I allow the indexer to run all night and it shows that indexing is complete, and I have no more high CPU usage.

  I was dealing with high utilization of the processor of the indexer for weeks, now my system is at peace.

• RdrCEF high CPU usage

  Hello.
  First of all, sorry for my weak English level.
  
  A few days ago, I installed Adobe Reader DC on all servers of my Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 farm. All started well, but now I have problems with high CPU usage. I have seen that for each user using reader DC open between 1 and 3 processes with the same name, RdrCEF.exe. This process consumes a lot of memory and sometimes, according to the PDF file, use a large part of the performance issues causing CPU in other sessions on the server user.
  
  What is the process of RdrCEF? Phy it's open several times by user ? And above all, how can I prevent the use of this process as much CPU?
  
  I hope someone can help me.
  Thank you.

  
  

  Hi all

  We fixed these issues with our last update. I ask you all to update via Help Adobe software-> check the updates...

  Please let us know if you face this or any problem after update.

  -Thank you

  Sunil Soni

• TimesTen 11 g - direct connection jdbc get very high CPU usage

  Hi guys,.
  
  When I run my application with a direct connection, I get very high CPU usage... Can help me where can I fix this.
  This is the configuration I have.
  
  PermSize = 102400
  TempSize = 2457
  
  More, should one I include the LogBufferSize? How much should I put in it?
  
  
  Thank you
  
  John

  Well, the point to keep in mind is that overall CPU utilization will not higher with direct mode with a local server. In fact, it will be a little weaker because of the much higher efficientcy of direct mode compared to client/server mode.

  The usual rules apply here; You must decide on the maximum use of your machine (normally one trying to limit it to)<=60% for="" the="" most="" optimal="">

  Then you need to see how your workload uses the CPU. with TimesTen there is no blocking operation within the database for a single application thread can, if it does not crash on all external events such as queue of messages, etc. I/O, usually consume a whole CPU core (a large volume of work in the process of transformation). If he asks you to this nature then you want to limit the number of concurrent threads to the smallest reasonable number. Assuming that the machine is running just the application and TimesTen and nothing else and that you wish to leave a carrot free for activity of DB o/s and the background (for example, journal of hot flashes and checkponting) then optimal throughput and response time will be reached with three concurrent threads hitting the database. You can run course with wires more than that but the flow will not be increased (in fact it will decrease somehwat due claim etc.) and response times will certainly increase. For this application profile you certainly wouldn't want to use more than 8 simultaneous maximum son.

  At the other extreme is an application that has multiple concurrent threads, but where each thread spends much of its time waiting for some work to do and runs only makes for a short period of work process then returns to the wait. You can use several more concurrent threads than the hearts of processors for this application profiel. The optimal number will be determined by the specific workload, load CPU it generates and your maximum target of use of the system.

  None of this is really specific TimesTen. The main differences that TimesTen brings all this are:

  1. the workload of database now works on the same machine as the application rather than on a server separate from the DB so that it consumes resources on the application computer.

  2. in general, database interactions will result not in any idle time from a point of view CPU usage (as a consequence of (1) above).

  Ideally, your request will be designed and implemented so that the number of concurrent threads can be controlled as a parameter tunbable to allow you to adjust the workload generated by the application to the specific environment in which it runs.

  Chris

• Flag 23: Dealing with "high CPU usage." How can I reduce this?

  Hi, I have a HP Pavailion 23 which has been given to me as a gift. Therefore, I don't know. All I know is I'm a player who likes to play games based on Java and possibly watch the videos at the same time, when I try to do the lagg is important. I get notifications saying that Chrome has high CPU usage. I read something about changing my BIOS settings? I'm not sure.

  I would appreciate help on this. I have dealt with the hand of single task Forcers and I find it quite annoying.
  Thank you!!

  Geez... No love. ?

• Cisco 4506 high CPU usage

  Hello

  Yesterday afternoon, one of our 4506 switch has climbed to 96% CPU usage. I did not the configuration changes. Here is the process with high CPU usage

  40 36630921841089949084 3360% 8.63% 10.56% 11,29% 0 Cat4k Mgmt HiPri

  41 30929587802851505705 1084 36,61 36,53% 36.18% 0 Cat4k Mgmt LoPri

  76 72485492 270422107 268 entry IP 7.91% 7.72% 7,68% 0

  113 35661224 40030007 890 21.91 28.13 29,84% 0 DHCPD receive

  After having HS health platform, what are those high:

  S2w-JobEventSchedule 10.00 7.54 10 8 100 500 9 9 7 36703:06

  Stub-JobEventSchedul 10.00 12.23 10 48 100 500 12 12 9 51004:51

  K2CpuMan review 30,00 29,44 30 99 100 500 33 32 25 37067:58

  K2AccelPacketMan: Tx 10.00 12,15 20 1 100 500 12 12 10 11871:22

  And finally sh platform cpu packet statistics gives me this

  Packets dropped in hardware by CPU Subport (txQueueNotAvail)

  UC Subport TxQueue 0 TxQueue 1 TxQueue 2 TxQueue 3

  ------------ --------------- --------------- --------------- ---------------

  0 11045 14031 149981 188579662

  1               0               0               0         5919279

  2               0          115638               0               0

  RkiosSysPacketMan:

  Falures allowance package: 0

  Package (common software) buffer allocation falures: 0

  Package Buffer (software ESMP) allocation falures: 0

  Package Buffer (software EOBC) allocation falures: 0

  Falures IOS Packet Wrapper buffer allocation: 0

  Packets dropped in the overall treatment

  Total 5 s 1 min, 5 min 1 hour avg avg avg avg

  -------------------- --------- --------- --------- ----------

  146521131 0 0 0 0

  Packets dropped in treatment by event CPU

  AVG s Total 5 1 min, 5 min avg avg avg 1 hour event

  ----------------- -------------------- --------- --------- --------- ----------

  Input Acl 146002289 0 0 0 0

  SA Miss                             27         0         0         0          0

  Packets dropped in the treatment of priority

  AVG s Total 5 priority 1 min, 5 min avg avg avg 1 hour

  ----------------- -------------------- --------- --------- --------- ----------

  Normal 46723179 0 0 0 0

  Medium 518884 0 0 0 0

  High 99797883 0 0 0 0

  Packets dropped in the treatment of the reason

  AVG s Total 5 reason 1 min, 5 min avg avg avg 1 hour

  ------------------ -------------------- --------- --------- --------- ----------

  SrcAddrTableFilt 24 0 0 0 0

  L2DstDrop                             7         0         0         0          0

  L2DstDropInAcl 46 0 0 0 0

  NoDstPorts                           32         0         0         0          0

  NoFloodPorts 146521022 0 0 0 0

  The package 16 total queues

  Packets received from the packet queue

  Total 5 s 1 min, 5 min 1 hour avg avg avg avg queue

  ---------------------- --------------- --------- --------- --------- ----------

  6279742115 238 247 203 193 ESMP

  L2/L3Control 1320811357 57 48 43 41

  Host of learning 24933459 1 0 0 0

  L3 Fwd Medium 5813 0 0 0 0

  L3 Fwd Low 72923122 0 0 0 0

  L2 Fwd high 11130 0 0 0 0

  L2 Fwd Medium 164016 0 0 0 0

  L2 Fwd 242645408 227 237 193 185 Low

  L3 Rx High                           9         0         0         0          0

  L3 Rx 89296999 439 461 378 364 Low

  Failure of the RPF 129420 0 0 0 0

  Packets dropped packet queue

  Total 5 s 1 min, 5 min 1 hour avg avg avg avg queue

  ---------------------- --------------- --------- --------- --------- ----------

  L2/L3Control 18470371 0 0 0 0

  Host of learning 5825831 0 0 0 0

  L2 Fwd Low 405210 0 0 0 0

  L3 Rx Low                         9863         0         0         0          0

  I will be restarting the night switch to see if it helps.

  Thank you.

  Salman

  Hello Salman,

  If DHCP requests are taken over by clients, you will probably want to focus on the limiting of requests DHCP using DHCP snooping.

  ip dhcp snooping limit rate rate

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-4000-series-switches/65591-Cat4500-high-CPU.html#high_cpu

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/TD/docs/switches/LAN/catalyst4500/12-2/25ew/configuration/guide/conf/DHCP.html#wp1073418

  -Ginette

• High CPU usage after upgrading to ESX 4 Update 1

  I just upgraded 2 hosts (IBM HS21 blades) 4 ESX to ESX 4 Update 1, and now I experience high CPU usage.  Before use on each host would turn around 10%, but now after the upgrade, it's about 80 percent on each and now all the virtual machines are running very slow as a result.

  The only change that has been done is that I demoted local readers of hard drives of 500 GB SAS drives to 7 200 RPM 73 GB SAS drives mirrored, 10 000 rpm mirrored and performed a clean installation of ESX 4U1 on each host.  As the VMs 14 are located on a SAN disk array I thought only, it would improve the performance of the hosts.

  Has anyone else had a similar problem or a potential solution?

  See you soon,.

  Josh.

  Seems very strange.

  You have the same number of VM? You have to upgrade the VMware tools?

  There are other changes?

  Local disk is not so important to the overall performance.

  André

• Satellite 1900-303 turns off for no apparent reason

  I got my Satellite 1900 303 for about 2 years and no problem. In the last month, I had a problem with him turn off his car suddenly and for no apparent reason. I checked virus and have found no virus. Can anyone suggest why I did this. I was wondering is that he has been making overheated?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Believe me, there is always a reason why this happens. From your description, I assume that your unit is overheating. If the temperature is too high the unit simply stops.

  You need to clean the device. After that cleaning the unit should work properly again.

• Satellite P750 - touch buttons have been activated for no apparent reason

  Heya

  My Toshiba P750 / 02L 001 seems to have this weird problem where the tactile buttons that activate the volume control / green mode / wifi switch / etc... have been activated for no apparent reason

  My hands are no where near close, and does so only after a certain time

  Any idea on what this might be?

  I'm under the Win 7 Home Prem predefined provided with the laptop edition

  Looks like the switch Board is defective. I would like to send the laptop to a Toshiba repair center. There is a list of ASP on the Toshiba site.