Compaq laptop presario V5000. CPU keeps maxing out and freezing up

The CPU keeps spiking and maxing out, thus the computer freezes up until the CPU drops back down. This is all visible from the windows task manager @ the performance setting. The CPU keeps repeating this up and down cycle zero to max.
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It says process 44. What do I do next to correct the problem.
Hi,
It shuld have a name, just look at the CPU col, which "Image Name" uses CPU ?
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