If it was just CPU heavy it won't be bad -- lower the priority and other things would run. But it
does worse than that -- it doesn't let go so nothing else gets dispatched. (I run Nero on the same
machine and it allows other tasks to get dispatched. You don't even notice it is running.)

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2. Isn't there someway to set the cpu slices so one poorly written
task can't take over the machine?


"PapaJohn \(MVP\)" <PapaJohn@CharterMI.net> wrote:

>no, it uses whatever CPU cycles are available...