For some reason it takes 15 minutes or more to upload a CD into my music library. It doesn't matter what program I use: Windows Media Player, Nero or iTunes. Same results. The computer is a Dell Latitude laptop running Windows 2000 Professional with 196 MB. The drive is a TEAC CD-224E. I thought it might be the drive so I bought a Memorex 52x, 32x external drive but same results. When I run a speed drive test through Nero it only shows it running at 6.5x speed. I also downloaded AdAware and SpyBot Search and Destroy. No change. Also, downloaded a start up manager program so I have nothing running at startup that is not needed. As I go into task manager right now it shows 23 processes running with CPU Usage % flucuating from 0-4%. Actually, there was a quick spike to 26% then 33% now it is sitting at zero. Memory usage shows 105724/373608K. The listings in the task manager are: System Idle Process, System, smss.exe, winlogon.exe, crss.exe,services.exe, Isass.exe, taskmgr.exe, svchost.exe, spoolsv.exe, Avsynmgr.exe, CfgSrvc.exe, regsvc.exe, MSTask.exe, SDMan.EXE, WinMgmt.exe, Oadp.exe, iexplore.exe,Explorer.EXE, svchost.exe. It will not allow me to close any of these except for iexplore.exe. I looked up what some of these things were and some were listed as a result of a virus yet I can't remove them. Can this be the problem? I think I gave as much info as I could. The bottom line is I have an iPod mini with five songs on it because it pains me to take over 15 minutes to upload one lousy CD into the computer. Thanks for the help.