My introduction… and problem :-)

[DougC]

Charles,

I have a very similar E8400 setup at home except I have an 8600GT video card and 4G of RAM. My Server 2008 Enterprise 32 installation runs beautifully with all the Aero effects enabled and I do not see high CPU usage on dwm.exe. Since dwm.exe is responsible for the 3D and transparency effects, I wonder if your video card drivers are causing problems? You might want to try either newer or older versions to see if it improves the situation.

I presume you have activated the Desktop Experience feature?

Doug

[BigVall]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for your reply, I’ll give that a go… might be an issue with the nVidia 64 drivers. I am using the latest drivers so I might give an older set a go. Uninstalling and reinstalling the same drivers last night did no good.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Cheers,
Charles

Ps. Yeah, installed all that jazz… basically followed all the instructions from this site word for word.

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