[billyo]

Try running Hoster with the task manager open, under processes is there anything using an unusual amount of cpu?
Apart from Hoster most things showing should only be from 00 to 05. if anything jumps up to 20 or above I should think it suspect apart from the system Idol which would be showing something around 90.[/quote]

i just did what you suggested and nothing is running above 20, mostly 00.hoster runs 00-03 and the systen idle process goes to 90-99..the only thing i can see going up is..ccsvchst.exe---flactuates to 0-50 memory usage 4k -14,096 ( +/- )