judging by the release spects on the Dell D610, its running with only 64MB of ram....Unless you had that upgraded, is only 13% of the recomended 512mb of ram. Im guessing you have it running with Windows XP buy the release date of the Dell... If the laptop is stock, its going to run at 100% because there isnt enough ram to support the program. Also, would explain why it keeps crashing on you so bad and so often. The program is user simple, however, there are a lot of processes involved from each part of the program. Many layers of data running at once. May be a simple program to you, but it take a lot of processing for your computer. Hope this helps you out