Help chaps please!!! A little more info - it seems to be the windows genuine advantage notifications and also the windows validation tools that were installed as an update and appear to coincide with this problem. These 2 updates do not have uninstall options. Very annoying!!!
I'm not sure whether it's linked to the hibernate function too. Is there a minimum amount of disc free space required to effect successful hibernation as I only have 6% of the c drive free.