Hello,

Wondering if anyone has experienced a CPU conflict between Disk Cleanup and System Idle Process?  May be a two part problem somehow related, but it's taking up up 95-99% of my CPU and thus making everything else run extremely slowly.  When I try to run Disk Cleanup, the program begins to "Compress Old Files" but then never finishes.  This take 90%+ of my CPU according to Task Manager.  Yet when I End Process on Disk Cleanup b/c it never finishes, then a new process called "System Idle Process" appears, taking the 90%+ formerly used by Disk Cleanup, and my system is very slow.  Under Task Manager, there is no option to End Process on System Idle Process, which only uses 20K memory but has a Base Priority of "N/A".  Restarting does not help.  The System Idle Process will run immediately...and only disappears when I attempt to run Disk Cleanup...but then reappears when I have to End Process on Disk Cleanup.  An annoying cycle that is making my XP run pathetically slow.  Any ideas?  Many thanks.