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I'll bet you have more than that running in the background. Run msconfig and see what you have scheduled at start up. You probably have a slew of programs that initiate as soon as you boot up and then run without you necessarily being aware that they are eating up system resources.

For starters, I would suspect any security software you may have; a lot of those type of software love to consume your computing resources but will not overtly let you know that they do.
 

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I'll bet you have more than that running in the background. Run msconfig and see what you have scheduled at start up. You probably have a slew of programs that initiate as soon as you boot up and then run without you necessarily being aware that they are eating up system resources.

For starters, I would suspect any security software you may have; a lot of those type of software love to consume your computing resources but will not overtly let you know that they do.

i think its only 2 GHz actually

vista gives me a 5.3 rating