One would hope that MS' measurement of "system idle process" is exactly that, thus non corruptible.

I've seen 2 kinds of things slow my system down a lot.
1) A process that has a memory leak that eventually uses all real RAM plus. Skype did (does?) this to me on some occasions.
2) Having a mapped drive defned to a place/folder that no longer exists.

I've had other things not so clear, but a re-boot always solves those.

good luck


>>>Hi Hilmar. Thank you for your reply. Just refreshed Ad-Aware and did a scan, thank you.
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>>>I am convinced something is alive in there. I do check TaskManager periodically, but nothing jumps to the eye except that a lot of proceses are running that I don;t understand.
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>>Windows has a lot of processes, but the processes can just as well be related to some malware. I suggest using the "What's running" software and/or Web-site, to check some of them. Also, since the obvious problem is sluggishness, check which ones use more than 1-2% of CPU power.
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>Good idea, but it doesn't point a finger to any suspect. Most of the time is spent on "System Idle Process". Who knows what may hide in there? How could one find out?
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>>>How are things with you?
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>>Great. Quite busy these days, with a larger translation I am doing for a client.
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>Glad to hear that.
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>Alex