I have seen some that sits for quite awhile how long do you give it.also try it in safemode.

You could also try a third party utility for clean up.

safe mode is a good idea to try it. to get to safe mode the easy way:

Turn on computer get into windows and turn off the computer with the power button, if it doesnt go to the choice selection do the process again till it comes to a choice menu. At the choice menu, select "start windows in safe mode" once you get into windows it will look a little different. open the program the normal way.

If this does not work it may have a virus.

thanks for the input guys. did'nt think of using safemode. i let it sit for about 20 minutes & still nothing. my laptop does it in 3 minutes, everything. talking about viruses, my laptop got attacked awhile back. defender pro i believe took care of it. don't know for sure. i shut the site down the site the minute it came up. my other pc in the bedroom got a trojon virus awhile back too. the virus on the laptop was not a trojon.the Emachine in our living room does not have any kind of virus what so ever. has pleanty of space left on it. do i need to take my documents off the desktop to make it any faster? it has 464 mb's on it w/ 50 folders.

documents won't take up resources just certain apps and windows.when your booted up hit ctrl - alt -del keys and in aplications look at the bottom and see what the CPU usage is.

thats a new procedure for me. never heard of that before. afraid to try it.

wont hurt. do control alt-delete (like you do when something crashes) and choose the processes tab. There will be a liist showing how much CPU and ram each process uses

Ever try using virus protection software?

did use windows live safety on my laptop last night & cleaned up unwanted files in temp folder. going to try it on the Emachine if i can get my wife off of it. she makes me mad when i do anything to it & is afraid she will lose all her emticons & junk from her incredimail & chat sessions online. i use defender pro on all 3 of my pc's. would'nt have it any other way. i use the toolbox software from it from time to time.