I have a strange problem with my computer and I can't seem to identify or locate the problem. However, I do have some details that may help with the problem... About 3 days ago, I downloaded AVG anti-virus to see how many viruses I had... It detected many and deleted them. Since I don't often retart my PC, I had it running and restarted it today. Now every time I load up Windows my icons show up but if MSN popped up, it wouldn't finish loading the window, cursor would freeze, screen would go black and PC restarts... Strangely that problem doesn't occur in Safe mode.. I then shut off the programs/processes that load at startup with msconfig... I am then able to load to my desktop and connect to internet, but when certain programs load, the freeze occurs. I am able to run internet and only limited programs. System restore didn't help either. It may be AVG anti-virus but I'm not sure.. Do you think could be a virus? hardware issue? or anything else I'm not aware of?... If you need any other information, I'll try and get it if I can without the PC freezing. It's very tricky to operate right now and I'm still testing which programs load and which ones fail. If anyone has any idea what the issue may be, let me know
I strongly appreciate it.
Windows XP Home
AMD Athlon 3000+ processor
1GB of ram
144GB harddrive