well there are a few other things that i didn't mention, as i thought the things i did mention were the important factors. however, just to be complete, here are a few of the other things that have been happening.
first, several times when the sys locks up, i have to shut down completely and restart it. when i have many times, it will not boot into windows. instead it tells me that i need to put in my installation disk, and run it. sometimes this works, when i use startup
repair, other times it says it can't fix it, and ask's me if i want to send a report.
other times it just tells me windows didn't shut down properly, and ask's me how i want to boot back into windows. ie normal startup, or safe mode...etc...
i ran a check disk, and it ran without any errors found until the last stage, where it said that there wasn't enough space to recover bad sectors. but when i run ssdlife, it says that my ssd drive is in perfect health. so i freed as much space as i could on c:, but there seems to be more space being taken up than what i can find in my files and folders. there is like 50gig's that i can't account for. any other idea's?
i do use acronis, but unfortunately, as it always seems to happen, i deleted all of my older images, and the image i kept seems to contain the same problem, as that was the first thing i did.
finally, i just noticed that my avast internet security hasn't updated in a while. and when i try to update the definitions, it gets stuck. so i am thinking about deleting it, and reloading from scratch.
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