Open the task manager, go to the processes tab and order processes by CPU usage. Is there a process called 'monitor' consuming around 50% of your CPU? If so, ki

Open the task manager, go to the processes tab and order processes by CPU usage. Is there a process called 'monitor' consuming around 50% of your CPU? If so, kill it. The process has something to do with the Acer restore partition, and if you remove the restore partition, it freaks out. I find this causes it to consume an entire core, ie: 50% of total processing power, as I have a dual core. So if your machine is a single core, I'm guessing it could use up to 100%. Hope that helps Edit: thought I should add that so far I haven't found a fix for this (although I haven't really tried), I've just gotten into the habit of killing the process when I first boot up.