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    High CPU Usage

    Thanks everyone for their help. By having disabled Tamper Protection, my system resources are now hovering between 2-5% pretty regularly. I need to keep either that or my Thinkpad Away Manager (runs maintenance tasks in the background) de-activated and the computer will be happy. Two quick...
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    High CPU Usage

    Thanks very much for your response. I checked out some of those links but they didn't seem to make a difference. However, I did find something on google that may help to explain it. Apparently someone identified some sort of conflict between a task scheduling software installed on the Thinkpads...
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    High CPU Usage

    Thanks for the reply. Just sitting here typing on this forum with no other programs open, the CPU usage is at about 53%. With regard to the settings, I have whatever is the default going: Tamper Protection & System AutoProtect are on, while Internet E-mail Auto-Protect and Microsoft Exchange are...
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    High CPU Usage

    Hi Mancunian. Thanks very much for your responses, I really appreciate it. I have never been a huge fan of Norton AntiVirus, but unfortunately I have no choice but to use it at the moment as my University requires it. I just uninstalled it for a moment to test things out, and sure enough...
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    High CPU Usage

    Ok, with iTunes closed and a single IE Explorer window open, I'm still around 50-65% usage. I googled some of the processes and it looks like the ones hogging resources all belong to Norton Antivirus (ccEvtMgr.exe; Rtvscan.exe; SPBBCSVC.exe). I know that antivirus software takes up a good amount...
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    High CPU Usage

    Hi all. I have a brand new Lenovo Thinkpad T60 (2.166 Core 2 Duo Processor; 1 GB ram; Windows XP Pro) and I noticed that the task manager shows that my CPU usage is consistently very high. For example, just when surfing the web and having minimal programs open, it is consistently between 40-65%...