Well, I seem to have the same problems. My CPU is ticking over in the high 30% range. It sometimes goes up to 100% with nothing obvious happening.
I ran most of the cleaning programs, Norton Webclean, AdAware etc. Defragged the disk, done a full anitvirus scan and installed Absolute Startup, which allowed me to identify and shut down a few more.
But what with the full set of Norton Security installed and a load of app's I can't identify, I have around 35 applications running in the task manager window.
Does anyone know the best way to identify what these are, to see if I need them, or to stop them from running?
I'm not an expert at this so it needs to be kept relatively straightforward folks!!
