My CPU usage is bouncing up and down

From: D-Rock (DRock_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:45:22 -0700

I'm new to this forum so if I do something stupid please be cool...

Here's my problem. I got a new computer 6 months ago and for me it's really
fast and the CPU usage never went above like 10%. Now for some reason I can
hear my computer working hard and when I open taskmanager the usage bounces
from 5% to 50%-100% every few seconds even if I'm not doing anything.

So far to remedy the problem I've defragmented my hard drive, ran Ad-aware,
and Norton Antivirus. None if this has helped. Any advice or ideas would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Derek

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