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Running programs conflicting, a driver problem, or malware. D/L, update, & run free MalwareBytes. http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-...4-10804572.html

You might PM Andrew S, if he has Vista, how he did it. pagedefrag was made for XP, do the following at your own risk. http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10755

Stormy said disable everything in your list except Bullguard. Find them & change them to manual with Start>Run services.msc You can change them back if needed. http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm Another possibility Decrapifier http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5223.html

Caintry is a gteat adviser. Super & MBAM are manual scanners doing nothing untill you update an run them. They are thought to be better than AdAware now. Blaster & Guard do not cause any problems in the background. One more active antyspyware might be good Spybot (Teatimer & Immunize)?????

Could it be this? http://forums.pcpitstop.com/index.php?showtopic=164735

a-squared was/is a good scanner

A first time poster with that attitude (or smarts) probably will not be here long. Insulting the long time posters is not a good way to join.

There was also AVG Anti-Rootkit Free & Rootkit Hook Analyzer, if you can tell the good from anything bad.

"Dont do what I think your gonna do." Too late for me, I thought I should remove Net Framework 1.1 & 2.0, then install 3.0 That is totally wrong. In add/remove programs 1.1 & 2.0 are listed but the size is blank. Now they will not install, nor will 3.0 I have not noticed any problems, but I don't do all of the things others do.

One test is memtest 86 http://www.download.com/Memtest86/3000-2086_4-10524193.html Is this of any interest, page defrag http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897426.aspx

mme or someone will have to answer that. Two more common ones, I have used. ATF cleaner CCleaner

Post your first MalwareBytes log to be studied. PC is slow, can not update, & MBAM found problems may indicate that you might need to post a HJT log in the HJT subforum Including the MBAM log

http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm 0X00000077 is near the middle of the list. It seems if the HD checks OK, you should run a memory test????

I don't know about the log, it might help. A link to a full Pitstop test might help, the yellow TechExpress at the top.

Stop the auto restart & see if you get a error code to post. Start>Control Panel>System>Advanced>startup & recovery settings uncheck auto restart OK.