Hey, I have noticed that once and awhile on my Task manager the process sqlservr.exe jumps up to 100% CPU usage and stays there until I END TASK. What is this file anyways? and how can I make it so that it does not startup when i start windows. I tried msconfig *startup* thing...but its not in there. Any other ideas?? Thanks everyone alot

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