Hi Rans6
50% CPU is a lot! Is that an average sort of number? For example, just checked perfmon on this laptop I'm typing on and CPU has averaged 2.7% over the last couple of hours. What spec is the machine?
When you are seeing the painful refresh, what's the hard disk doing?
Always difficult to judge experience levels from afar...but, and apologies if you can hear the gnashing of octagenerian gums on avian seed cases, do you know how to use Hijackthis?
Cheers