Yeah, what War17 said..............excellent suggestions to address my
reference to 'malware.' I should have included his info.......thanks for
the assist, war.
Heirloom, old and must be time for bed


"war17" wrote in message
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Check for virus and adware

Housecall Online Scan
http://housecall.antivirus.com
or
Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/d...d=ie&venid=sym

SpyBot S&D searches your harddisk for so-called spy- or adbots;
http://security.kolla.de/
or
Adaware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

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Warren
For additional help, post in
http://groups.msn.com/HelpforInterne...owsME/homepage

McCheez wrote:
Everything is running very slow, mouse cursor is slow to respond and a
delay
in entering text from the keyboard, programs slow to open. Checked with
system monitor, it showed kernel processor usage at 100% - constantly.

I have rebooted and closed unnecessary programs, and monitor will show
5%,
11%, even 20% at max. But after a few minutes or after opening a program
(like Word, Access, MSN or IE) it goes right back to a VERY slow
response. I
checked System Information: running tasks appeared normal, everything
else
appeared normal; however, problem devices showed error code 22 for the
device
'ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering'. I've got no idea what that is.

PLEASE HELP!!!