From: "Paul Ranson" 

Well I have more than 10 pages open with flash ads on them and it doesn't
register as significant in task manager. Maybe it's a consequence of Hyper
Threading. I'll try later on a basic Centrino machine.

Anyway why not just disable Flash? It's clearly incompatible with your way
of working.

Paul

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:4229e984$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Paul,
>
> I see this on 3 different machines running NT, Win2k, and XP. I've updated
> them all with the latet windowsupdate.microsoft.com stuff.
>
> What do my flashes do? Go to various news sites that have flash ads and
> open many pages. I'm confident that you can peg your CPU with 5 minutes
> effort.
>
> I find Australian news sites worse than American ones on average. The NY
> Times didn't use to be that bad but they appear to run more Flash ads.
>
> Paul Ranson wrote:
>> Adam linked to a page containing a Flash animation in another group. This
>> runs on my 2.8P4 without significantly registering CPU cycles in
>> TaskManager. So what do your Flashes do that's so CPU intensive? Perhaps
>> you have another resource issue? Or an out of date graphics
>> driver/DirectX setup.
>>
>> Paul
>>

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