Comment 43 for bug 31037

Disabling remote desktop worked for me in Jaunty; thanks, Mr. Mike, for the tip about the command line.

Can I make a plea to get this fixed? I came to Hardy from Windows almost exactly a year ago, and I have loved the experience. Compared to XP, my 5-year-old Dell soared. Then yesterday (2009-08-07) I upgraded to Jaunty, and found my machine almost unusable, with the load on the processor running at 300 - 600%. I lost a night's sleep but finally found this fix.

If this had been my experience a year ago, as someone thinking of switching to Linux, I probably would not have stuck around. Windows users thinking of switching today are directed to Jaunty, and this bug could be the killer.