Are you the screen saver or the command line version?
The command line version(cli) is much better at stopping itself to let
other programs use cpu cycles than the screen saver version.

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:36:29 +0000 (UTC), Brian Cleverly
<Brian.cleverly@btinternet.com> wrote:

my seti program has been chugging away on my Laptops for a few tears now
quite happily from one Pc upgrade to another. however I have found that
with outlook 2002, when the client does a synchronisation with the
server, it takes hours if seti is still running. If I take seti off,
then it's minutes. i notice on the Task manager that Seti has 99% of the
resources, but it does seem to release them when I use other programs.
BTW I have Seti on all the time. The laptop runs w2000 pro, has 256Mb
RAM & a P4 1.4G processor. as above, I only have issues when Outlook is
synchronising, any ideas?