Hey Cheez,
The process you are seeing is a legit Windows process.....State
Manager. Under Windows Me, STMGR.EXE provides support for the System
Restore feature that lets you roll back your configuration to fix problems
that are due to bad software installations or viruses. However, System
Restore may consume significant amounts of disk space and cause performance
problems if it is not configured correctly. For more information on how to
use, configure, and/or disable System Restore, see Microsoft article 267951.
I am hesitant to give you advice on how to proceed......we should
wait on one of the gurus. That process should not be consuming all of your
cpu cycles and it is not something that you would want to disable.
Have you taken the steps outlined by war17 to see if you are
infected with some sort of malware?
Heirloom, old and awaiting the gurus


"McCheez" wrote in message
...
Where has ProcessExplorer been all my life? 2 minutes to download, install
and run the program, 7 seconds to find the culprit, 15 seconds to figure
out
how to correct it. WOW!
Apparently there was a program called STMGR.EXE running. I'm not sure what
it is, but I'm on the trail now.

THANKS!!!

"heirloom" wrote:

The error code you are seeing is by design and nothing to worry about.
I
would suggest that you get a good process viewer, i.e. Process
Explorer,
free, from www.sysinternals.com or you could go directly to the page of
utilities, http://www.sysinternals.com/win9x/98utilities.shtml and
download
from there.
This app will show you ALL processes that are running, including
background
processes, that may or may not show otherwise and it will provide the
amount
of cpu usage, in %, by each. Hopefully, it will direct you to the
offending
process. I suspect you have some sort of malware that is eating your
cpu
cycles. Post back with what you find.
Heirloom, old and hope that helps


"McCheez" wrote in message
...
Everything is running very slow, mouse cursor is slow to respond and a
delay
in entering text from the keyboard, programs slow to open. Checked
with
system monitor, it showed kernel processor usage at 100% - constantly.

I have rebooted and closed unnecessary programs, and monitor will show
5%,
11%, even 20% at max. But after a few minutes or after opening a
program
(like Word, Access, MSN or IE) it goes right back to a VERY slow
response.
I
checked System Information: running tasks appeared normal, everything
else
appeared normal; however, problem devices showed error code 22 for the
device
'ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering'. I've got no idea what that is.

PLEASE HELP!!!