I press alt/control/delete and windows task manager comes up and then I click on the "performance tab and it shows cpu usage and a graph of usage over the last few minutes. While using, it jumps around of course. But not necessarily enormously higher. I should say that Poser is not ALWAYS running so high while idling. It just does it sometimes. I can try removing the dork. I have sometimes done that in the past, and I can't remember why I prefer to keep him in. But the problem with misloading is not just speed. It loads something like figure/chest, but there is no figure at all, and then I know from experience that nothing will work right and so I have to shut down the computer and start over once or twice. Again, this does not happen each time, but maybe 1/3 of the time.