CS5 12.0.4 CPU use when idle.

12.0.4 has caused Photoshop CS5 to use approximately 15% of CPU under OS X 10.6.7, even when no documents are open. I haven't made any changes to my system save for the update. As I need Photoshop to be open often while I just look at a couple of photos for awhile, I'd like this to stop: it's wasteful.
Since I know there's a history of problems with Snow Leopard and fonts and Photoshop, I decativated all fonts as a test: no dice.

There's another topic here on the same problem.  We have no idea why it might be happening, and haven't seen it ourselves.
I just posted instructions in the other topic on how to get a time sample of the running app and try to get more information about where the time is being spent.

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    ron App wrote:
    bMaNoNe wrote:
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    Is it normal for 10-20% cpu to be used when idle and watching activity monitor?
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    Hello:
    Answer - no.
    The activity monitor should indicate what is consuming the processor when your system is idle. 
    I just looked at my own system with Safari running and the usage is about 3%.
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  • Why is itunes using 94-97% of my cpu, even when idle?

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    koral wrote:is it normal that my Xorg uses in average 15% of one of my CPUs even when idle ? (I would be quite surprised to get a positive answer...)
    I have Xorg using 8% of CPU (frequency is approximately 2GHz) when "uTorrent" under "wine" is running and 0% otherwise. Do not know why.
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    I've tried to figure out what's causing the system load, and so far no luck. The task manager show these processes using CPU:
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    The system is a fresh install, no programs installed, except Boot Camp. Even before I installed the Boot Camp drivers the CPU load was 20% when idle.
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    Message was edited by: Rune Månsson

    If you have not already, you may want to also post your question in the Book Camp category
    http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
    The system is a fresh install, no programs installed, except Boot Camp. Even before I installed the Boot Camp drivers the CPU load was 20% when idle.
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    Never mind, I figured it out by myself. On this particular machine I had a 3rd party plug-in installed (SRS iWow 1.1.8). Removing that brought the CPU usage down to 0.1%. Usually I don't install 3rd party add-ons. This would seem to be a good policy.
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    hherbos wrote:
    Thank's - it was the RC_ChangeManager Plugin! - I removed it and there's now no notaceable CPU consumption of LR when sitting in the background.
    It's really annoying that LR misses a lot of really tiny things that Adobe developers could implement them alltogether in only a some days. But no - you have to install lots of plugins, which lack of the poor LR api.
    Well, the SDK is actually pretty complete, and quite powerful. Lr is a heavily threaded application, and this is exposed to some extent by the SDK. For plugin authors, this is really nice. It offers a way to make very powerful additions to Lr that don't belong in the core product, but behave as if they are.
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