Im back! I walked into the room and could hear the computer. I have been watching it now for over an hour while using the telephone. The CPU usage on task manager stays around 50% even though I am doing no work on the computer. I did as spothmann suggested. On "Processes" on Windows Task Manager Poser,exe is the active program and under CPU it has been running quite steadily at about 52%. I had pressed "close" under file last night and am doing no work on it at all although it is open. The only other processes that are running steadily are system Idle Process and Task Manager of course. Now and then a program will change from 0 to 1 very briefly. These were explorer.exe, and csrss.exe. I got suspicious that I have 4 svchost.exe processes showing on the task manager, although they do NOT appear to be running. From what I find on the internet it seems that I should only have one. Does this ring any bells? Obviously there could be a virus here for all I know, but I am up to date on all my virus scanners. Now the sound has stopped as I was typing, after well over an hour, and I did nothing to stop it. Poser.exe has dropped down to 8-15 so something is still going on even though I am not using it at all. lsass.exe goes to one now and then. But at least the sound is off. Should I mention that I have hogsoft, and it says it is always ready to go. I don't know what that means! Would it be part of the Poser.exe file?