Hi, I've got a wierd problem that is just not going away and it's driving me nutz. On startup my Inspiron 4150 with Windows XP Home SP2 loads into windows then my HD goes nutz and slows everything down for about 5 min until a program in Task Manager shows up as update.exe and I end it, then everything is fine. There are no other running processes taking up CPU at the first 5 min and then update.exe comes on and I kill it and everything miraculously works again. This kinda all started when my SP2 automatic updates kept trying to download SP 2 Canidate 2 and I kept stopping it is when this started. Finally I let it install Canidate 2 thinking that would solve my problem but it didn't. I have all the updates installed and it still is doing this. I've tried turning off automatic updates and that doesn't work either. I have used the problem solving steps with msconfig and nothing in there would stop it. I can't hardly use this thing until that update.exe comes up and I end it. I have also let it do it's thing until update.exe dissapears and it's fine until I restart then the whole process starts over again. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.