[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by OCDP

G,

the computer is all so new, not even a year.. it will be a year old in... October? I think !

Its a brand new hard drive... video card, more RAM ,etc...

The OS hasn't been on quite a year.

I don't know if the registry is the problem, as my PC isn't that old, and I don't do much install/uninstall, but nonetheless, it's a possibility.. and I will get a registry cleaner this evening... as well as search for that executable you told me about. Greatly appreciate all your input so far... keep it coming

ok is there anything on it you have not back up? sounds like time to format the drive and reinstall the system instead of grabbing at straws. Spyware will do stuff and adaware will work to an extent but eventualy you just slow down from garbage (especialy if you install and uninstall a lot of stuff) if this doen't fix it then you are definatly looking at a hardware problem, I had a problem last year were booting was inconsistant, some times it would reboot on its own, ended up being the powersupply. This year I had the same thing and was about to buy a powersupply and it ended up being the operating system had a corupt file so reinstalling windows fixed that.

so I always recomend backing up the stuff you need and wiping the hard drive and install a clean windows and rebuild first. it doesn't take to long and it cleans up the left over junk better than any other program out there. if this doesn't work then you are looking at a hardware problem.

Steve