Originally Posted By: defektes
BAH! The problem came back.
I have used every program you guys mentioned ontop of Norton and Adaware, I want to take the [censored] PC to the range and test my 1911 on it.
Sorry to hear of your problem.
. . . Norton? If you do anything else, I'd dump the Symantec junk. It causes problems just like this, and plenty of others.
This computer has plenty of horsepower to run XPsp3 and the apps. What are the resource meters reading during these events? If you're seeing CPU spikes to 100% and huge memory jumps, then a program is indeed intervening in process. Stuff like older SAS builds used to do this on occasion, and would bog down systems. Otherwise, it's likely a SW conflict or corruption.
If these are Java-based applets bogging down, it could be corrupted source code or installation. Have you disabled Windows Firewall? That also contributes to/causes these problems. Just had it do it to a Squeezebox Server java applet the other day. But I see you did that.
Another approach is to shut down all your unneeded drivers, startups and services, and click them on one by one until the problem emerges. That takes some understanding of services hierarchy, however. It also takes a lot of time.
Otherwise, sometimes a clean OS reinstall is a valid last resort. All the various registry cleaners, arrangers and tweakers have their limits once the OS has too many miles on it.