Hi Joe Press ctrl alt and delete at the same time this will bring up task manager in the process button is a memory usage for the various exe. the ones you don't recognise do a bit of a Google and you should be able to work out what programme they are from. Even without adding anything in the time you've had the pc programmes will grow with usage as they can be buffering stuff for faster loading etc.....have you cleaned your temp files in your web browser recently? May also be worth running msconfig to see what programmes are running at the start.. Regards Notajedi