oofki after I responded to you, I looked at the % by process, the one actually taking up all of the power was a desktop wallpaper switching tool. After I disabled that, it dropped to about 55%... I still don't think that was causing the problem, as that was installed about 7 months before the camera, but I had removed all but one image in the queue, and I think I confused the program by doing so... so once I removed the program from startup, and rebooted, like I said, CPU usage, while using the cam was around 55%... thanks again for the reply...