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Interesting-- hope this does the trick- I am SO ready to say goodbye to FLASH. – Mark56, on November 11, 2009 02:59

Doesn't work, did exactly what you describe and once completed I went to my benchmark test site, Mazda USA. When the Flash content started, CPU for IE immediately spiked to 80% and stayed there til I shut down IE.

I think the key is that you have to always return to a site that is known to cause you trouble, after trying these suggestions or it is not a valid test. In my case I can watch YouTube for a while and all at once the thing goes wacky, that's why I have one site that consistently causes the problem so it is good for testing. – Mark56, on November 08, 2009 01:33

Doesn't work, did exactly what you describe and once completed I went to my benchmark test site, Mazda USA. When the Flash content started, CPU for IE immediately spiked to 80% and stayed there til I shut down IE. – Mark56, on November 08, 2009 01:33

Sorry, I did exactly as you described and it didn't help.

For my "test" site to replicate this behavior, turn on Task Manager or some other CPU monitor software.

Go to www.mazdausa.com, then click on "Mazda 3 5Door". It will run a flash intro, every time I do this in either FF or IE, my CPU usage for the browser gets to at least 75%. This is my benchmark, I have issues at many other sites too, but I find it more consistent to test all the suggestions the same way. – Mark56, on October 16, 2009 01:43

Interesting, I rolled back to Version 8 and saw no change- same problems. Plus, on many web pages I got "warnings" that I need to update to the latest version to see all the content. So, that didn't work for me. – Mark56, on September 25, 2009 01:21

I gave up for now and disabled the Flash add-on for IE a few days ago, it's not worth the frustration. Before I figured out the culprit, I was actually looking at buying a new laptop I was so sick of dealing with the slowdowns, sure glad I didn't waste the $$$. I am waiting for Windows 7 to come out and hoping somehow this will resolve itself since it seems like Adobe isn't going to help.

I have indexing turned completely off and have for some time, as one thing to eliminate as the source of the slowdowns.
I also use Process Explorer, when this happens the process that is hogging the CPU is IE. – Mark56, on September 16, 2009 00:31

I'm glad I found this thread after wondering for months what was wrong with my Dell Inspiron laptop. I could never trace the source of why the CPU usage would suddenly spike and end up with me doing a reboot. I was blaming antivirus programs, going from one to another, was ready to trash the laptop.
This laptop has 4GB of ram so I knew it could not be hardware. I switched to Firefox- same issue. I started car shopping and noticed this happened when going to the Mazdausa site. Finally figured out that the Flash content was causing the spike as I watched the CPU usage tank when the Flash content started to run.
I also had an older Dell laptop in the desk, running XP SP2, with 2GB ram. I dug it out and installed Flash v10, went to the Mazdausa site, same freaking problem--- so it has nothing to do with Vista.

I tried the link/procedures above, didn't work for me.

God I hope they fix this soon before a laptop goes flying.........