Some game uninstalls use 100% CPU

[Phait]

Any idea why? At one point I had to reinstall Far Cry, so I tried to uninstall it, and it got along in the progress just a bit and my CPU usage was at 100, and it never made progress. I know the game uses 4 gigs, could this be a culprit? I would've had to wait at least 10, 20 minutes just to uninstall it.

I also tried uninstalling a game about 940 MB, and the same problem.

I did a search for Spyware, nothing found. I do have a Microsoft utility that removes stubborn programs, but I shouldn't have this problem anyway.

[NutWrench]

A really badly written uninstaller might use 100% of your resources, but since this is Far Cry, I doubt their uninstaller is the culprit. Do you have an anti-virus program running? Do you have any security-type program that monitors files on your computer?

Try sorting the tasks in the Task Manager by CPU time. You might see the culprit program that way, too.

[DudeMiester]

Or maybe you have a software HD controller, and because you're moving so many files around when uninstalling it uses 100% CPU. You know actually whenever any program runs, at least on single core CPUs, it uses 100% CPU, but only for a short period of time. So when you see 50% CPU usage, it really means it uses 100% CPU, 50% of the time. Ok, I know this is pointless trivia.

[Orochi Avlis]

America's Army 2.0 used God knows how many resources to install......

[Cerberus_e]

I also have a problem with far cry, I am already months waiting to uninstall it...
it always says: finding game components to uninstall (no I didn't move the install folder)
I need disk space for all those games that come out summer and end of year.

I'll try nutwrench' idea of disabling virusscanner