Hi all,

Windows XP prof SP1 with 512MB RAN and a AMD 2GHZ CPU.

Any software that calls ntvdm.exe will hog my CPU. Photoshop, some packages durineg 'file open' etc. I have this since a few days and can not trace back what I did or installed.

Symantec Corp. Antivirus is installed, several Spyware-Cleaner cleaned out minor things, but there is nothing that would be responsible for the first sight.

Someone has a clue for me please?

greets
Wolfgang

maybe u want to install SP2
or did u install latest updates released via WU ?
maybe I have the same on work ... office took quite a while to load at work since updating ... I will have a look at that on friday

Mertsch - thanks fgor the reply

My system was fine, up until recent days. I have installed some utilities and apps (NO games!). So either the Registry was modified or a DLL or such was replaced. I had latest updates before and everything was smooth. SP2 will not really solve this, because its more security related.

Google points to the same question I raised on several links. Either paid pages promise an answer (?) or the answers had been very general and no real solutions.

greets
Wolfgang

and what do you think of sending you the file ... I do have no problem so I may jsut send you the files and you try ... a backup before and should be no problem