Thanks for the reply. ive attached a screenshot of task manager showing im running 39 processes and using 1848m/2463m and winlogon.exe using 309,884k what the hell is going on? When i start my pc up its using about 250m/2463m and it gradually goes up the longer my pc is running, i recently had a big bout of spyware attacks however i cleared or thought i cleared it using norton antivirus 2006, ad-aware, stinger, spybot, spy sweeper and spware blaster. None of these pick up any more spyware, norton sometimes says that C:\program files\roxshare\ace.dll is screwing something up but that directory doesn't even exist. any ideas people?