[wdbaker]

Hi,
You could also google a free program called "powermenu" for changing things like cpu level, this is what I used before I found the much more sophisticated "process tamer".

Just throw it in the start menu and then when you want to change how the cpu handles that program, just right click and raise or lower it. lets you do some other cool things also like change opacity of the window etc...

this was free also

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