What happened:
- When installing Ubuntu 6.06 from CD, I didn't touch the PQSERVICE partition (FAT32 recovery partition that comes with an Acer laptop, including Windows XP and other Acer Software and drivers).
- When returning to Windows XP, the application monitor.exe (that belongs to the AcerRecovery tools) boosts in CPU Usage, so that the system becomes very very slow. (Killing the process is enough to solve the problem)
- After checking many forum posts I realized that this is always a symptom of problems of AcerRecovery when trying to access the pqservice partition. (Don't ask why it does it every time you turn windows on)
Other important information
- I've partitioned my disc before when installing Fedora (more than once) and this didn't happen.
- The pqservice partition is apparently ok. Same size, same file system, same name, same place...
- I obviously cannot repeat the procedure (would have to buy a new laptop for that), but in all cases I read on the web there were always these points in common: Acer laptop + ubuntu partitioning = problem with monitor.exe accessing pqservice partition
- Soon after installing 6.06 I updated to 6.10. I guess this is insignificant because I updated, I didn't reinstall. Anyway I didn't use windows in the mean time, so I can't tell when the problem started.
thanks for the bug report. which CD did you use? Alternative CD or the Desktop / Live CD?