A few months ago, I got a Pentium D CPU 3.20GHz with to 2 gig memory and
a
250gig SATA drive. It's worked great untill yesterday. Now sometimes
when I click on a shortcut or exe for anythingor even just the start
button it will run the hard drive light for about a minute before loading
the program or bring up the start menu. Then all is fine untill it does
it again. I've run AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy, ad-aware, and zone
alarm pro's spyware scan. No spyware other than the usual cookies. I
noted that when AVG started it's daily scan, zone alarm warns me that it'
s
trying to make changes to the hosts file. As I now block the sites
another way that I was blocking the the hosts file, I just renamed it.
That gets the host file a reading error in the scan log, but no zone alar
m
pop-up.
I tried going in to services.msc and seeing if there was anything I could
shut down, but at first I was getting access denide message when applying
any change to any service. Thirty minutes later I tried again and it let
s
me change start type no problem.
The only thing new is a game. I downloaded a free 14 day trial for Dark
Age of Camolot. The first download I tried didn't work. It would instal
l
but when the game tried to run it's updater, it wouldn't update saying to
many files missing or corrupt. I uninstalled and deleted that directory.
I then used the download my wife used that DID work on her computer and
worked on mine as well.
Any suggestions on what I might try next?
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