Hey Chico,

And you're sure it's the encore.exe process that's eating up the CPU and not something else (like your virus program goin' bonkers whenever you start Encore)?

You start Encore, start Task Manager (it'll come to the foreground, it always does), click on the Processes tab at the top, you should see some columns with boxes at the top. Click on the CPU box that tells the display to sort by the process using the most CPUs and what percentage it's using.

Do you see Encore.exe at the top of the list (or something else)?

I just downloaded a demo version of 4.5 here at work on a W2K Pro workstation. It's fine, no CPU hogging. You can try to patch your current version, do a uninstall / reinstall, or try to contact Encore's tech support department (maybe all of the above).

You gotta a weird one here!

-mike