I am running ME and my computer has run up the CPU usage to 100% nearly all the time only dropping occasionally to 60%. This occurs without having ANY programs open.
I've run Spybot, Adaware, Pest Patrol, defrag, scan disk etc.
One note: Adaware shows from 700 to 1000 processes running!!
This slow down started to occur, I believe, earlier in the year but I cannot attribute any one action or addition to instantly seeing a mass slowdown. I do know that I occasionally get a WINDOWS UPDATE notice for IE and Outlook for versions all ready installed per the install log. When I try to update the computer seems to hang-up. But I suspect that it is the 100% usage not allowing the process to finish.

I have a Gateway Computer, Pentium 4 CPU at 1.75MHZ, 256MB memory and an 80 GB HD w/ only 17GB utilized. I recently installed a NVIDIA Force video card w/ 256MB. Only change in the computer performance is it allows my son to play certain games and the processes detected by Ad Aware went up.
I have read a number of forums on this type of problem but have never come across a solution, other than to reload the entire system. I do notice that a lot of the forums mention that the processes running are down in the 10's, 20’s, or 30's, not 700!

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

wow.

thats alot. I would let adaware do its thing and clean up all of that goodness then head
for safe mode and run everything that i had against it. thats just nuts.

You can check the processes you have running against this list to see what you need and what you don't, but with that many, it might be better to reformat and start over.
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

You could also post a hijackthis log in the Security forum to help identify what is causing the problems.
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownloa...load-5034.html