maddad

You were right about it being the system idle 90odd%.....it just seems though as if doing the basics has slowed right down since i last used this I dont know if this is relevant but although i seem to have 3 quarters of my disk space free but when i look at the available physical memory on the sysinternals program it tells me i have 63,940 total but only 460 available..

When i said we went to XP i meant on another pc THIS ones had ME on it since new NOT sure what you reckon im"reluctant"to post.......... ctfom.exe reminder.exe HIDSERV TKBELLEXE loadqm task monitor system tray EM_EXEC multimedia keyboard lv coms avg7_cc avg_emc avg_mmsvr smc service igfx tray hotkeyscmds mstdc stillimage monitor scheduling agent "state mgr" load power profile ssdpsrv smc service autostart ms sqlserver7.0 service manager But heres the lot that are being used

sorry......but other than looking in the startup list in"msconfig"im not really sure how to check anything else...NEVER NEEDED TO AS for upgrading....well,we did and xp went the the pc place in the sky after 2 months... I dont need to have any programs (that i know of)running ...it`s still the same processes.programs.....????????????????????????????????? p.s just had to get new video driver so it`s not that....was the same 100% before that anyway

Could someone please advise...My cpu is at 100% all of the time..I have run spybot and adaware and have no virus`s either ...i have even went to the startup section in "msconfig"and turned off ALL entries within but it`s still 100%.....i have cleaned out the dust bunnies from inside and have air conditioning running so it cant be a heat problem(?). I am only a pc novice although i have learned and carried out all the usual basic procedures....(?) The only real noticable side-effect seems to be page loading taking ages and startup taking an lot longer than usual.... I had been using XP for a while but it died a death so i came back to our old ME which seems to have deterioated since last use I dont really do any downloading apart from the one or two security programs and mabey 5 games but it`s the same with or without them I use sygate firewall,avg antivirus(yes...ive heard!!)and OFTEN run spyware,i also regulary clean out any AND all cookies,temps,history etc etc.......ANY IDEAS ANYBODY?????