I had a problem similar to this once and it eventually turned out to be an SQL backup. One of those things you tend to forget about if you didn't set it up yourself. I'd also check out all the scheduled tasks you have set up - don't forget you can set these up on any client or server.
2009/10/27 Murray Freeman <[email protected]> > We have an AWS (alternate work schedule) whereby if you choose you can > work longer days such that you get a Friday off every other week. So, while > our regular working hours are 8:30AM to 5:00PM, there are always a small > number of people left in the building and thus the network after 5PM. Of > these people, a couple have complained that after 5PM thenetwork really > slows down, or at least they have delays printing and opening documents. One > individual has told me that precisely at 5:17PM each evening, her > workstation virtually comes to a standstill for about 20 minutes, and then > goes back to normal. I've checked the event logs on the servers, and > snothing special is going on. I'm going to hang around this evening and take > a look at the task manager on the one workstation to see if I can see if any > process isusing up all the CPU resources. I'll check the event logs on the > workstation as well. We're running Win XP and Windows Server 2003. I have > suspicians about something "sinister" like someone using our machines as > bots, but it's more than likely an internal issue. Any thouhgts would be > appreciated. > > > *Murray * > > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
