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Hey guys. I just posted this in the web & email forum also. If thats an issue, let me know.

Anyway, got a whole bunch of issues happening simultaneously. I dont know if they are related or not either so ill just list them all independently (not all are net related but they may be pertinent...?)

First of all, Im running Vista home premium, core 2 duo on 1gb RAM and plenty of HDD space left. Its a Dell laptop, so I have their standard chipset and Im running Kaspersky as my AV. I just restored my computer to factory settings because some of these things popped up before. Anyway:

- Firefox (3) freezes up and crashes every time I try to sign out of my email (gmail).

- IE7 opens up and crashes instantly. Thats even after I set it to no homepage.

- Some web pages will not open in ANY browser (Firefox, IE, Opera, Flock). There is no error message or anything. The browser just acts as if I did not hit enter or clicked the "go" button. These pages tend to be sites that I visit regularly (netflix, dodtracker)

- explorer has started slowing down drastically and restarts frequently.

- windows media player frequently crashes (errors pop up even when it is not in use)

- task manager indicates that PCMservice.exe is possibly hogging resources (70,000k+ on average).

Does this sound like one single issue? They all came about the same time.

Thanks!