hic-cupped and out of sync

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by billyo

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 ( +/- )

Billy this Norton Security. Here is a link to Norton forum on the same issue:
http://community.norton.com/t5/Norto...ssue/td-p/2888

Read through it and see if there is anything useful to get this down as I think this may be your problem, specially since you are also using a laptop and external hard drive.