My computer which has Windows XP has been running slowly recently.

It seems every time you try and shut down there’s some process that won’t shut by itself

While I’m typing this out the Zone alarm icon on the bottom right of my screen is showing as lime green, with the message CPU 98%

I’m typing this in word before I actually add it to the forum … Internet Explorer just stopped 5 minutes ago when I was about to log on to the forum page.

If I open the Windows Task Manager this very second there are 47 processes running with the memory usage given as, for the big ones

Teatimer.exe takes up, 31,000 K
SVCHOST.exe in 5 times on the list, with the biggest memory usage figure of about 12,000 K
VSMON.EXE takes another 13,000 K

SPYBOT takes up 21,000 but I’m running a scan at this very moment

Why are so many things running at the same time

EXPLORER.EXE is taking 7,300 K but isn’t on at present
MSNMSGR.EXE is taking 5,100 K and its also not running at present

WHAT CAN I DO ??

Many thanks in anticipation