cpu hogging

Hello Forum! Recently I've noticed that my computer is being hogged down by something and when I checked the task manager the Search process is always using around 30% of my CPU. Up until now I didn't had any problems since I've disabled windows search and indexing as I have no use for it... My...

I have a crackling sound while playing audio, this happens in all programs (YouTube videos in Firefox, MPC Player, Groove, Winamp, etc.), both in audio and video files. However, when a regsrv32 process is running, the crackling sound totally disappears! It does take some CPU though (about 50...