Some background program might use the CPU with high priority. Start with running all 5 of the anti-parasite suite mentioned by Grif in http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6122-0.html?forumID=44&threadID=18308&messageID=198749
Hope this helps. Otherwise post back with the list of all running processes from msinfo32.
Kees
I have a 2-yr old Duron 800 Win98SE machine with 256RAM. Just recently I started to experience frequent 'momentary' (maybe 5 seconds) freezes of the cursor. These things happen like every couple of minutes. In the absence of these freezes, the computer otherwise works fine. I've tried re-booting, de-fragmenting, and have only 2 or 3 apps open at once. Even with 3 apps open, my system resources are still at 60-70%.
The only thing that has changed to the system in recent times is that about a month ago I switched monitors, but both are 17" SVGA.
Any help in solving this really annoying problem will be appreciated. Thanks.

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