lsass.exe csrss.exe -- any way to stop?

terrance,

MS has seen some issues where lsass spiked. Here are some articles that
may apply, but without having specific data about your environment
troubleshooting this via newsgroup would be too complicated.

Here are the articles:
811173 Lsass.exe on a Global Catalog Uses 100% of the CPU
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=811173

315697 High CPU and Memory Utilization When You Add Objects to or Remove
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315697

810088 CPU Usage May Be High After You Turn On Auditing for
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=810088

828297 Memory Leak in Lsass.exe
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=828297

814122 Lsass.exe Uses More Memory Than Expected
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=814122

There are many many more articles that could possibly relate to your issue.

--
Sir_George
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...oups/setup.asp


"terrance" <tdaniels007@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I've done a google search on this subject and it seems alot of people
> ran into this but still I haven't found a solution... Is there any way
> to stop or quiet down lsass.exe and csrss.exe? They seem to be
> critical components of window but under Task Manager they are the only
> services that are constantly active reading and writing every second.
> I just want my hard drive to spin down when idle. This can't be good
> for the drive can it? Are all XP Home systems like this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Terrance