just a quick hint for max crunching with spybot s&d. it seems that the spybot s&d program "teatimer" sometimes uses 100% of one cpu core. it can negatively affect your crunching ability.

Yes I much prefer coffee to never have tea time, disabled...

You might try changing your internet security settings to prompt for ActiveX and scripts. You'd be surprised at the programs that use IE or IE services under the covers. After you've had to click o.k. dozens or hundreds of times, you might have an idea of what's going on with your system. You can get some additional insight by having a task manager window open as you're clicking through all the approval. It certainly was an education for me.

Sometimes you get interesting results if you deny a request or two.

Personally, I don't use IE for anything except for the occasional Windows/Office update and whenever I finally move off of Windows entirely, I won't use IE at all (good riddance!). I've always used Netscape / Mozilla / Firefox ever since I had to give up my machine with Mosaic, except for the occasional dabbling with IE.

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When aprox , as your post here is related with what is going on here Internet Explorer 8

Many thanks

Ideas? From memory, the number of reports you've got down on these forums regarding your system issues leaves but one: The sign IS for you to undertake a full OS reinstall and certainly look at the state of the Java. Version 6, Update 13 is out. Uninstall before upgrading is what Sun (about to become part of IBM) is recommending.