Rayraz, what I suggest to you a few things. 1st - Go into program files and look through all your programs and see what doesn't belong there. If you know your computer, you should know what you installed and what installed itselft off the net. If there are things that don't belong (i.e. spyware and adware) get rid of them first as best you can. Sometimes you are going to have to manually shut stuff down in the task manager yourself and delete registry keys manually (I suggest you back up your registry first if you are going to do this) Also, how many processes do you have running in the background (could be an indicator of spy/adware which has been a huge culpret of computer problems for the past 10 months) 2nd - Run your system tools. Run scan disk and defrag, in that order. Then run your anti-virus after you do that. Also, what OS are you using and what is your drive capacity and how much free space do you have? If you are running low on disk space, that can cause problems. Hope this helps some.

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