John Durham wrote: > Cyril Halbach wrote: > >> Does anyone have Microsoft Security Essentials installed on vista? >> I would surely appreciate knowing if it is also hogging your computer as >> it apparently seems to be >> doing to me. It is using up 50% of the CPU time when it is running and >> at times runs higher than that. >> I thought at first is would scan the machine at night because it is set >> for 2:00am but for some reason it >> to run just about any time of the day even when I am using the system. >> At least Google Desktop only uses >> the system when it is otherwise idle. >> >> Cy >> > Still using XP here, but from the sound of things the system could have > too many applications running at once. Remember how we used to regulate > that with a thing called "startup control"? > > Well it turns out I was mistaken abouot MS Security essentials. It turned out to be Windows Media Player 11 a feature called network sharing service. The cpu hog is now dead. -- Cyril Halbach Williamsburg Kentucky -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.