WTF do you want from me, Windows Vista?

[Jeyk]

I'm still getting the same problems, I'm afraid.

The new situation here is that the CPU spikes runs at 100%, then fluctuates by going down as low as 5%, back up to 100%, even with all startup programs shut of, on either computer I try to run it on.

A huge problem that I have with this in particular is when I specifically start up TS; it spikes and hangs at 100%, and the computer completely slows down.  It gets even worse when I actually try to talk while in TS.  TOOOONS of lag.

I've disabled all visual effects as well, and it still fluctuates and spikes to 100% on both computers.

I think I may be at the end of the road here!  Any suggestions?

(I still get Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, and Installation crashes on the Vaio, as well as rundll32 errors, but it's just the CPU on my main PC)

[NoCry]

sorry jeyk; no suggestions here!