Ok, this is really strange.....think my computer has gremlins running around in is.......not viruses.....just gremlins.

I have both Internet Explorer & Firefox on my computer....depending on which one I feel like using. I was getting the hang of firefox.....then noticed my horse wasn't cantering....brought up Internet Explorer & it canters......I haven't done anything to firefox & up until yesterday, my horse still wasn't cantering because I had no idea what was missing or what I needed to do to fix it.

Middle of May, my year was up with Norton 360.....I renewed it & they installed it on both of my computers. I started having strange problems with my computer.....the CPU useage would peg at 100%. I would shut everything down & it was still at 100%. I called Norton & they said they would go through the virus check & clean up my computer for $100.....well, I didn't have $100, so I passed & decided to do a little more playing around with the computer before jumping to the conclusion it was a virus.

Everytime I was running with firefox, it would to the 100% CPU thing intermittantly. I thought it might be the register cleaning program, so I disabled that & it made no difference. I went back to using Internet Explorer & it stopped doing the 100% CPU thing.

So I went back to using Internet Explorer for a few weeks. I then decided to see if I was still having the problem with firefox. Went back to using that & it seems that the high 100% CPU useage has gone away .......not only that, but I looked at my horse tonight & she is cantering again while using firefox.

I haven't done or chaned anything.....don't remember there being any automatic updates lately either.

This computer is sure doing it's own thing. My internet server was having some problems, & they have been down & up constantly with all the lightening strikes on the water towers where all the equipment is.....but that wouldn't have anything to do with things like these problems......

Don't think I will ever figure out the strangeness of this computer......oh well, everything is going good for the moment.....so I will sit back & enjoy the peace for the time being.

Debbie