You can always call us. Did you look at the Windows Task Manager and check the processes?
Here is step by step to do that.
1) Make sure no program is running on your computer.
2) Press Ctrl-Alt-Del, at the same time. This brings up the Windows Task Manager.
3) Select the "Processes" tab in the Task Manager.
4) Look in the lower left hand corner for the total number of processes. In a normal Windows XP system, this number is normally between 19 and 21. If your is much higher than that, you are losing much of your CPU performance so Windows can manage all those processes.
5) Next, look to the immediate right of the total number of processes. There you will see the CPU usage in percentage. You need to watch this for a minute or two. It should bonce like a heartbeat between 0 and 1 (matbe 2) percent. If it is spiking to anything higher, then you have active processes using up your CPU.
Now, the bugger in all this is what to do with those processes. There is no magic list which can help you quickly determine what should be running and what should not be running on your computer.
You pretty much have to write down each process, then go to Google and search for it. There are three or four sites on the Internet which should give you descriptions of what those processes are and whether or not they need to be running.
Now, you can call and talk to me about it, but if it is a resource issue, caused by too many running processes, then what I just gave you in the above paragraphs is exactly what I would tell you if you called.
Honestly, it sounds like resource issues. Resources are used by each background process and when too many are running, your computer will be quicker to run out of resources whne asked to do something, like load Aces High II.
Every computer is different, and I, nor anyone else, can really tell you exactly what your computer needs to be running. If your computer is a Dell or HP/Compaq, or some other OEM computer, then you can contact them and ask them about shutting down the many programs they automatically load for every computer they sell.
