. trying to get the usage down , maybe to spyware, etc. with no luck.
first determine what program is eating your cpu time..
(do this by opening task manager and click on the processes tab..
now you should see the process thats is eating the cpu cycles click on tab to sort by cpu usage to make it easier to find..)
goto your start command.. click on find or search..
search the offending app or service that was eating the cpu cycles....
do a google search on the app / service in question.....
if the app of service is not needed then either goto start ..... run..... msconfig
goto statup tag and uncheck app registry setting..
or
goto start ...... run....... services.msc and shutdown the offending service and put on manual startup..
this should solve your problem manually as opposed to being at the mercy of spyware catchers...
DoctorYo