info on computer:
The computer is 6 years old (that's 60 in computer years, I think)
512 Ram
Drive is 37.2 GB
13.3GB free space

I haven't always had this problem, it's been the last few months, but getting worse and worse. My son thinks it all stems from when I put in EZ Trust Security Suite. I've got the firewall turned off. I'm actually waiting for a CA techinician in a live chat window to find out if there's something going on with the firewall.

The event log shows endless "true vector" errors, and I vaguely remember that having something to do with it.

Never wanted to put SP2 in, since I heard it had so many problems. Maybe once I clean this mess up, I'll put it in.

Does any of this give you any more insight?
thanks