100 percent CPU usage

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From: Mick (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:43:07 -0700

My problem is that when I try to use any of my movie
players, my CPU gets bogged down. I can be on the
internet or not, it bogs down. When I bring up the task
manager to kill the program, like 6 of them open. Once I
kill the program using all the CPU it transfers to the
next task manager. If I use paitence and close them all
and get to the desk top it is still bogged down.
Ultimatly I end up having to shut down the computer. This
was happeni with XP and still happening with the SP2. I
have McAfee 8.0, and it has found nothing vitus wise. Any
advice?

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