Why is finder hogging resources on my Mini?

[morrillt]

Hello all, I have a new mac mini, 1gig ram, 2ghz processor, and finder is consistently using 65+ percent of cpu percentage, i checked my buddies computer and his finder uses 1%. Also my computer crawls and i assume this is the reason.

Please help.

PS: I used migration assistant when i first got this computer.

 

[Cave Man]

Can you open Activity Monitor and sort by task (most use at the top) and then take and post a screen shot? My first suspicion is that your spotlight is busy indexing your hard drive, a temporary but annoying thing.

 

[miles01110]

Either that or mdsworker is indexing your pdfs or whatever it does exactly. Go to Applications/Utilities and open up Activity Monitor. Change the drop down to "All Processes" and sort by CPU usage to see what's going on.