well i did have problems the past week and i’m also running XP. i’ve lost a lot of time trying to figure out what was causing my systems to almost come to a standstill ( especially since the cpu usage was nearly idle at all times ). for me it was because i use Retrospect for backups and both the clients and the server have this problem. a patch rarely applies to everyone. but if something has been fixed, then it’s normal to include it in the program updates as soon as possible. i think this thread should be stickied and renamed to describe that this is a fix for a problem ( this thread is important and doesn’t stand out ).