"Bob Johnson" wrote in message
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I seem to be pegged at 61% after unchecking most of my SU items, plus a
defrag and reboot.

What am I missing?

Probably nothing. 61% seems quite reasonable

Run MSINFO32

If you are on dial-up, you'll see something like..............

KERNEL32.DLL Win32 Kernel core component
MSGSRV32.EXE Windows 32-bit VxD Message Server
MPREXE.EXE Win32 Network Interface Service Process
MMTASK.TSK Multimedia background task support module
EXPLORER.EXE Windows Explorer AKA Windows
RPCSS.EXE Distributed COM Services
SYSTRAY.EXE System Tray Applet
SPOOL32.EXE Spooler Sub System Process
RNAAPP.EXE Dial-Up Networking Application
TAPISRV.EXE Microsoft Windows Telephony Server
DDHELP.EXE Microsoft DirectX Helper
MSIMN.EXE Outlook Express
PSTORES.EXE Protected storage server

plus one or more instances of

IEXPLORE.EXE Internet Explorer

plus your virus scanner, firewall, spyware detect-and-blast, etc

Cable or DSL will have a similar but not identical laundry list.
You may have Outlook instead of Outlook Express.
Maybe Firefox is in there somewhere. Or Opera.
Free Agent. Adobe Reader.
And countless other Servers, Processes, Browsers and add-ons.

Regardless, they need resources to run.
Lots of people think that there is something wrong
if they are not above 80%.

That theory has no validity.