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the problem has gotten progressively worse since I started this thread months ago. Last week it's gotten so bad that it seems to be shutting down my programs one by one. This smells like some sort of badass virus or something, I've scanned with various different anti virus/spyware programs and nothing comes up.

I am now unable to perform a windows update, I am unable to update Ad Aware, I can't download any Windows 7 themes from online, etc... a few other programs won't update or work as well, and I have to restart several times a day to keep web pages loading consistently.

Right now for example I had clicked Rev Scene bookmark around 10 times to get it to load. Most of the bookmarks I have on the top of my tab will not load if I click them now.
I will have to restart the PC and then they will work normally, but will only take about 30 minutes for the cycle to repeat and begin over again.

As for the programs not updating and Windows update failing to connect, that just flat out doesn't work no matter how many restarts I do.


like I said I'm pretty handy with PC's and I've gone beyond the normal troubleshooting steps and done some expert PC tuning, still nothing.
I would definitely be re installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 on the PC unfortunately this is my dad's computer and it's just too much work for him to go through the whole process. He needs all his files readily available at all times.