Hello everyone! For the past few weeks my PC has been acting strange.Whenever I run a program, whether it be Chrome, MSN or a Game the programs keep locking up, they appear as Not Responding in Task Manager, but if I wait a minute or so, they start running again absolutely fine.This happens to all programs that are running every 20 minutes or so, even typing in an MSN window it'll freeze up, I can keep typing and about a minute later all my text will appear and I can carry on as if nothing happened. But it's very annoying.Even when not using the programs they still pop in and out of Not Responding, for example, I was sitting there with Task Manager open, just looking at Steam, the Task Manager every now and again said Steam was Not Responding then it just popped back out of it and was working as usual.So far I've tried getting the latest drivers for my PC, the latest Windows Updates, I've done a Disk Cleanup and a Defrag on both of my Hard Drives, I've scanned the PC with AVAST and Malware Bytes, and also scanned it in Safe Mode.One of the other problems that have come to light, as well, is that when on the internet the connection is non-responsive for about a minute or so, too. When I open up a browser, or type in a website it can take about a minute to recognise what I want it to do, then it works wonderfully again for a few minutes, then does it again.I'm at a loss of what to do next to try and rid myself of this problem.Please, is there anyone that can help me?Thank you.OS : Windows XP SP31 person n1 person needs an answerI do too

How is if you boot to safe mode with networking?

I'm in Safe Mode with Networking now, spent the last 15-20 minutes going to random sites and loading up a couple of programs here and there, everything seems to work perfectly. The connection has been 100% and none of the programs have gone in to Not Responding, nor taken a while to load. What does this mean? Thank you for your response, by the way ^-^