Skype was the first thing I closed.....

PC Phone is another big user or resources. Not sure if you have it or not but its a hog...

Mikez....there's a cool program offered by Micro$oft called "Process Explorer". It's like the task manager but goes deeper into the sub categories of each running application. Very easy to find DLLs or programs that are hanging up.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/processesandthreads/processexplorer.mspx

Net,

Very nice program. Just installed it and works good. Now I know that Tivo is really using up a lot of resources on my computer and will stop it until needed.

Awesome! Glad I could help....

Found the culprit...."Media Direct" a Dell program. Deleted the POS and I'm back up to speed where my hunt and peck method of typing now is slower than my computer.

I generally type a lot slower on this forum because I know a lot of you don't read very fast. 'specially you Mikey. :D

Glad you got your problem fixed.