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Kinuki
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Any luck with your HD scans? Anthony might be on to something, as your CPU/Memory numbers look okay (though I don't have a clue what TeaTimer is). Better'n mine, anyway (thanks to Pandora, it's rare for me to have less than 120 MB tied into Firefox or IE at any given time). You shouldn't be using up all your RAM unless you've got a lot more things going at once than I think you do, so it looks like it's something more complicated than a simple program going awry.

Sorry it took me so long to get around to it, but I finally got around to turning off my PC and back on again to enter the BIOS. I didn't find a hard drive checking utility, though. I ran Windows Memory Tester from the start config menu before bootup, but it didn't find any problems (I think it checked the RAM and not the HDD though.)

So... now what? :(
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Mmmm, you ought to be able to find scandisk or chkdisk somewhere in your Windows system utilities. Bugger if I know where, though: I still haven't had more than a passing glance at Vista.
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Well, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that I found the disk scanning utility in Vista (right-click the drive under "Computer," click "Properties," then the "Tools" tab, and there's the tool for error-checking), and scanned my drive, and found it had no errors.

The bad news then is, of course, we now have no idea what's causing the problem. :?

Here's my scan results.
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Anthony Lion
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Checkdisk isn't worth SH!T...

Download the Knoppix LiveCD and boot your computer with that.

It has some better tools. Also, since it doesn't USE the HDD, not even for a swapfile, if the PC doesn't seem to lag, that alone will be a good indicator.

Which brand BIOS is it on your computer?
And is it updated to the latest version?

You may also want to check if 'S.M.A.R.T' is switched on in the BIOS.
(This is an 'early warning' system meant to detect HDD-failures)
Many makers have this disabled as default as it may slow down the boot with a few seconds...
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