Ta! I've disabled tht and a couple of other non-essential services. I'va also temporarily uninstalled my antivirus. It's a bit scary, but as that computer is a media centre, and does not go onto the internet or have email, I figured it'll probably be safe. I'll try and set up AVG on the other windoze PC to be able to scan that one...maybe.
Blooming widoze! I mostly use a mac, so it's always annoying to have to descend to XP's level of farting about. Mind you, my mac sometimes sounds like a small jet engine!!Not as bad as some of you are describing, but it's loud nonetheless!