my computer stops functioning after every action and when i open task manager to close the not responding program, it sayss that the program is running fine, then after closing task manager, i can breifly perform actions again. i have tried system restore, i've run both avast and spybot, and done a defrag, and registry cleaner. the problem improved for about 20 hours, and then came back again. i have windows xp pro1 person got this answerI do too