Well I already posted this in the XP forum but I just realized that is probably the wrong place to post it, so I will give it a shot here.

Well I just got a new computer the other day. I have been trying to get it all set up and ready for school but when I went to change the desktop and screen saver something weird happened. Whenever I click on display properties my memory usuage goes way up. It gets to the point where it says that my virtual memory is too low. One time when it was loading up I clicked ctrl-alt-delete and checked how much memory it was using up and it was somewhere in the 60k area. I know that isn't right for it to be using so much memory plus it takes REALLY long to load up anythere and make changes. So I know something is wrong there. When I first got the computer it worked fine. The only thing that I can think of is that I imported a picture for my desktop, but that was only a 1 mb jpeg, so I don't think that caused it. In case you need to know, I have a 1.8 Pentium 4, 256 mb ram, and I am running XP. Thanks for any help you may have.

its your dektop picture, believe me

try another one, and see whats going on

have a nice day
kernel

Hi - just checked mine - you are right that the CPU usage ( bottom of the Task Manager Window) goes up but it should only be for a moment ( 1 sec)'
Mine shows 49 processes and CPU usage around 4%.
You might want to install Mike Lin's (_http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml) to see what is loading and perhaps what you can remove. You can use msconfig but I prefer StartUp CPL.