You're right. It is fuzzy, therefore not very informative. The ironic thing about CPU usage monitors, in conjunction with other such utilities: You use them, and the hog all your cpu cycles. Therefore your computer is hobbled. It's better just to let your operating system do its job. The other day I got something going that I didn't want, and suddenly my cpu cycles were hogged. I fixed the problem by cutting back the programs that were loaded at startup. Ron