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Hmm... looking at the problem from a different perspective, If you are running that P4 with hyperthreading ON, your task manager will show your system as having 2 processors. If 1 of those 2 processors is showing 50% cpu usage, then that process is actually using more like 80-100% of the processor time, meaning that the application is hanging.
It basically sounds like you have too many processes fighting for CPU time and bogging down your processor.
My best guess is to try disabling some programs (temporarily) to try and figure out what is conflicting with stuff.
Just looking at your running processes, I'd say that it's possible that you are probably having conflicts with norton, ms antispyware, earthlink spamblocker, and the direcway proxy server software because all of them running together seems like they would all be fighting to "protect" you from some of the same things. (Norton interent security would probably be the one that overlaps/causes issues with the other programs running)
Generally, from what I've read the norton internet security suite (any of these security suites actually), cause conflicts with other programs.
other comments/observations. Unless you are/were using it when running hijack this, you could probably disable (or set process to manually start) these processes
nopdb (listed as speed disk service in the services menu of admin tools) [this maybe does background defragging... not sure]
ghost (doubtful that you need to have this constantly running, even in the startup tray)
realplayer/quicktime (having them hanging around in the background doesn't speed up loading of their stuff much, but it's a pain to find the option to disable their startup in the tray)
also you seem to have 2 instances of getright running... you probably only need one of them running.
Because you are running xp sp2
you may want to check (if you havn't already) for program updates because of wackiness due to sp2 (especially the symantec stuff).
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