I think your right caperjack, just looking at mine now, it doesnt seem to be real time.

Have they changed their website address, cause i swear it used to be free.grisoft.com ?

But AVG 8.0 is the best free anti-virus and anti-spyware package.

Other good free anti-spyware, AVG version 8.0 has both Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware, so you can kill 2 birds with one stone, although i still prefer Sbybot for a full system clense. Spybot is very...

What is the "Registered to" number? Please don't post it though! Is it the same as the previous registration number for your version of Vista? If they are different then they have installed a...

Me being a complainer at heart, i would go for someone at the top, like a CEO or a director. Send them a letter/email explaining your issues and mention that the service has been bad and my problem...

That was at the beginning Bennet, it had nothing to do with that in the end. Windows Media Player for the world!

Funwadi, if your problem has been solved, please mark this thread as solved, so...

Another Issue solved.
Hope it works well from now on :)

71 Degrees C is quite high. Most ideal temperatures should really be below 60 Degrees C. So i am thinking that this is most defiantly a cooling issue. I would think about getting one of the...

Another problem solved by Daniweb :)

That would be a good idea to do. Contact the people that sold you your Laptop (see if they have a website). A laptop is meant to last for years, not months :P
Do tell us the temperature of your...

Normally overheating is caused by the fans not working as efficiently as they should be, at cooling the CPU and other system critical components. There are some good temperature monitoring tools...

How old is this laptop funwadi? Do you think that it is a build up of dust then caperjack? It would seem a plausible explanation, if this laptop was over a year or so old.

Totally agree with ya caperjack, if it is in warranty take it back! Do you think it's the CPU overheating? That could cause this kinda issue, with lots of freezing.

This is really strange.
Your HDD is fine, so it's not that, RAM at 1 Gb is sufficient to run Vista, You don't have any nasties in your system. mmm indeed.
How old is this laptop? Is it still in...

If this is a work laptop, does the company that you work for have a IT department? Most likely seeing as you are just the user of the laptop, there is likely to be someone in your company who has...

A thing to look for:
Goto Control Panel -> Sounds & Audio Devices -> select the 'Hardware' tab.
Is there anything written in the Hardware box? If there is click on it and press troubleshoot. Then...

Might be an idea doing a system restore if neither of the above options help you. But that is a last case scenario. I would as both Odie and Boblarson suggested is too check all your drivers for...

Seems that your hard-drive looks to be the problem.
I would advise doing the following as this website shows:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1583&page=5
If anything on that...

Right that error message relates to the following article:
"A problem occurred within NTFS.SYS, the driver file that allows the system to read and write to NTFS file system drives. There may be a...

Hijack this log details are shown here:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread83821.html
That is the latest version of hijack this. Download it and run it, you should get a text document at the end...

mmm
Those error codes arn't ones that i am familiar with. Were there any codes that looked like the following:
"0x000000XX" (X meaning any number or a letter)
Or
"0xX0000XXX (X meaning any number...

I meant take a picture with a camera :P A BSOD is just a way of your computer telling you something is wrong and then it shuts down your system. If you could get the code that would look like...

If you can take a note of the BSOD (blue screen of death) message, take a picture would be the easiest option in your case. Home Basic is not the best version of Vista in my opinion, so well done...

If you press ctrl+alt+del when it is not frozen, what are the processes running on your system?
Go to the 'Processes' tab and make the task manager box quite big then do a print-screen of what it...

Have you done a Microsoft update since you reformatted it back from XP to Vista?
Try Microsoft Update rather than Windows update, you might get some more options available. Just to make sure you...

Memory is a bit on the low side for a Vista spec Laptop.

ctrl+alt+del doesn't work to unfreeze the laptop?
Has this only happened this once, or is it happening regularly?

Do you get any blue screens at all? Or does the laptop just freeze up giving you no option but to turn it off?

From what i have heard from jbennet (mate of mine and fellow poster here) Vista is too 'fluffy' and is very system draining. I myself don't use Vista and don't intend to unless it is crucial, in the...

Cause you suck bennet :P Everyone knows my comp is the best mate :D
Even though i have a Vista score of 0 because i don't run the software!

mmm,
Have you tried a System Restore back to a point where the machine worked fine?
It may have been suggested before, but is still a good idea to try it if you haven't already.

Also Terabyte hard-drives are still very fragile things, and corrupt very easily because it is still very new technology. So i would go against Tb HDD's. Instead have two 500Gb HDD, because it will...

Well for another check of your systems RAM, you could use Crucial Techs scanner to see what RAM you do have to see if it a matching pair.
Scanner can be downloaded from here:...

Channel 11 is the most commonly used channel and is the best channel for not being affected by other networks nearby. Channel 9 i believe is good if you have cordless phones near the router, because...

Can you connect at all through the router onto the internet? Are you able to connect through an Ethernet cable?

launcher.exe:

So as it suggests you should remove it, either using Hijack this or by doing it manually.

If it turns out to be spyware as chris has suggested above, i would run the instant scan found here: http://www.liutilities.com/products/campaigns/plib/se/
This will then scan your system for...

Yeah update every driver that you possibly can! Also when it shows the 32% have a look what is eating your CPU and type the process name into this site:
http://www.processlibrary.com/
It will tell...

To re-format your Hard drive follow this procedure:
1. Locate any files you will need and either transfer them to discs, memory sticks, or another external hard drive.
2. Find the name of the drive...

When you look at Task Manager, ctrl+alt+del, look in under 'Performance' tab. Are any of the bars red or have a full green bar saying 100% ?
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