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Well basically, when i go to shut down my computer it freezes when it gets to "Windows is shutting down", but it only freezes if my pc has been on for longer than around 30mins/hour. When i go to shut down my computer using start, i get an error message about dumprep and something like "failed to intailize", which happens to quick i can't read it. This error started to appear when it started freezing. I have tried disabling dumprep... i can't find it in both msconfig and regedit, but i disabled it through right click on my computer -> properties -> advanced -> Settings (startup and recovery -> and then under "Write debugging information i have selected none. I am running Windows XP Media Centre Edtion 2005 and today i upgraded to SP3 to see if that stopped the freezing, but didn't make no difference. So any help or tips to stop my computer from freezing would be greatly appriciated. Thanks, Joe :)

Hi all, I've got a really annoying problem when surfing the internet. Quite often the pages won't load or will show a blank page. When using Firefox I get a message saying "Transferring data from xxxxx" and the page never appears. If I hit refresh it sometimes loads a tiny amount of the screen and then says "done" or it will display the code of the page. Sometimes it loads a blank grey screen, again saying the page has finished loading. After hitting refresh several times the page usually loads. I know my connection is ok because I can stream radio and play online games for hours without disconnecting, the problem only affects my web browsing. I've run the following scans: Avast! Anti-virus Spybot S&D AdAware Vundofix VirtumundoBeGone CCleaner I've also followed a manual guide on removing the vundo trojan, here: Firefox cannot load certain web sites (Vundo trojan) None of these methods have worked and I still have the problem, no matter what browser I use. However, if i boot my machine into safe mode with networking the problem isn't there and I can surf fine. I'm connecting to my router with an ethernet cable and have tried different filters and a different router, the problem still persists. I'm hoping someone can offer some suggestions as to what I can try next as this problem is driving me round the bend http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif Thanks in advance P