have you updated the antivirus and run a full scan all files? Usually when I see that it's a virus. Programs running in start-up don't usually peg you out at 100% even if there are a lot of them. Or maybe you have a trojan or back-orifice or netbus running? I don't know what virus software you use but I like Norton's. It has found things like that many times when nothing else did. You say install windows but you didnt do reformat right? Have you done task manager to see if anything unusual is running or like 2 explorers in the list (classic sign of a trojan such as an AOL password stealer). Also check win.ini (run= and load=) and also systray.ini if you even have one for anything you don't recognize. I also remove findfast from startup if you have office cuz that thing will run like crazy when it does a search. Anyhow, good luck



[This message has been edited by JeanneD (edited November 10, 1999).]