I seem to have a problem with Morrowind causing my entire computer to freeze up when I start the EXE. when the game does successfully start up it plays morrowind just fine (which is about 2/3 of the time), and it doesn't seem to matter if I have a bunch of startup scripts or not. Also it tends to happen on the second or third time I start the game. I suspect that it is because too many things are began at once. Does anyone know if there is a way to soften the CPU usage on startup?

Computer Specs.
Single Core CPU 2.56 GH
PSI Video Card 256mb
2 GB of RAM