Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA
Programs: UA 1MM 0P, AA, DL, *wood, Lifetime FPC Plat., IHG, HHD
Posts: 7,176
there is something in MSE or defender that run in the background and just EATS up resources. msmpeng.exe. I have had this problem on a couple of machines and cannot figure out what the common element is, for these vista and win7 machines to do this. so, off it went.