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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 2704674" data-attributes="member: 1874">For starters, add DiskCheckup to your arsenal of maintenance applications: <a href="http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm" target="_blank">http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm</a>DiskCheckup is a very small program that will check the health of the hard drive when you run it. It takes less than a second to run the program and it's mostly correct (a full blown hard drive inspector program will take hours to run). I doubt your problem is a failing hard drive, but it's worth checking because it would be so annoying if the hard drive actually was the problem.Is there anything interesting (warnings or errors) in the event log? (Control Panel > Administrative Tools)This is far fetched, but check if any of the installed certificates have expired. You can do this from IE (can also do it from Firefox, but it's easier with IE). Tools > Options > (one of the tabs) > Certificates. If that's the case you can download updated certificates from the optional part of windows update. This caused a very similiar problem with Norton Antivirus and Windows around 2004 when one of the certificates expired, for whatever reason.Other than that, you can run AutoRuns <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html" target="_blank">http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html</a> to check for all the programs that autorun when you start windows. The list will be huge. Check for curious entries.</blockquote>

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