Joe, Any virus software running in the background? Could be it's flipped out and convinced itself it has to thouroughly scan every program you open. I've seen it happen before. Just a suggestion. Kyle Elmblade [log in to unmask] From: Joe Vidal <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 10:03 PM Subject: [PCBUILD] CPU > I have a HP Pavilion 6470z. All of a sudden it seems that my cpu runs at or near 100% when ever I run any software. Some of my programs lock up the computer every time. I don't think I have much running in the background and I have have plenty of disk space. Any idea why? > Thanks, Joseph Vidal PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html