I have Windows XP - Dell 6 months old - 300 GB - 150 GB free - 2 GB RAM. Home Office.

I installed MS Office 2007 this weekend (have a maze of obstacles and problems besides this one)

 Tonight when I tried to open Internet Explorer I got the error message: "This Account Has EXCEEDED Its CPU Quota" -- and the word "Suspended" was on the Internet Explorer Screen. Then "Your account has used more than its SHARE of the CPU in the past 60 second sliding window." or "Your account has consumed too much memory."

I had MS Outlook open, a 1 page Excel spread sheet, a music program playing.

I closed everything and REBOOTED the computer.

Any advice or comments? I've never encountered this before and I often have 6 or 7 programs going at once, and 3 or 4 DIFFERENT web pages up.

Many thanks!I could be wrong but I believe this is an issue with a website you were viewing or trying to visit, not an issue with your computer.  Did this affect your computer, other than the message appearing in your web browser?
Thanks for the reply.
I'll watch carefully what I open.
However, when I received the message I didn't have any websites or the Internet Explorer open. I was just trying to open Internet Explorer - before it got to my home page.
Thanks again. I've resolved this problem by:
Control-Alt-Delete
Using the Windows Task Manager, I found that some softwares were always running in the background.
I was able to delete these softwares.
There were softwares using 35%, 33%, and 26%, and then I would open Internet Explorer and get the error message.

So, there is a limit as to how much music, etc. I can have going at any one time!
(smiles)