[Ben K]

Umm, I'm only (intentionally) running explorer and the task manager.

I've got 51 processes running although serveral (such as SVCHOST.EXE have multiple copies running)

The biggest ones for CPU are the system idle process at 72 or more and explorer.exe at between 4 and 12 or so. Ahh, right CPU is in % and when CPU usage says 20%, system idle says 80%, right that's clear enough.

So not much going on right now, could it be to do with the multiple copies? Is 51 processes a lot?

I remember getting pretty miffed with my computer running lots of what seems like superflouous rubbish a few months back. I noticed when I installed real player and couldn't get it to not automatically open when I switched on. Their helpdesk took me through changing msconfig but my 'smart' computer would fail to remember the changes and revert back by adding a new copy of whatever. I ended up uninstalling real player.

i'll run my spyware program right now. It's got a process for it so I would have thought it's doing it's thing anyway but just in case....