My Thinkpad 760E has for some time been running extremely slow - sometimes not responding at all. For a number of times I have now observed that this situation eases once I press ctrl/alt/del and kill the process mxtask (listed as not responding). The machine then seems to run smoothly. I've tried to find out some more about this task, but have so far not found anything which seems relevant. Can somebody come up with an idea/hint? I'm slowly getting tired of killing off this process.
Some facts: The pad is running the "old" windows 95. I tried to upgrade it once to osr2, but this failed during plug and play installation (the machine simpely froze). I therefore restored (exact copy) the c-drive from a backupdrive. The pad is equiped with the usual IBM-stuff and Staroffice 5.0 and some other minor things - not much. Normally it is placed in a selectadock II and used for controlling my telescope equipment.