Strange quirky thing goin on

[jerdude]

I built my SX box about 4 months ago. Got stuff installed... happy as pie!!

My system was running great. I wasn't getting any of the "common" problems that others report. Midi timing was fine... etc.

I am connected to the net... after installing Komplete 2 and Instant Messenger 6.2... i started getting the some weirdness.

1. When i click on any of my drives C,D,E... even the DVD-ROM... i sometimes have to wait for 20 seconds for it to pop up on my desktop.

2. Gigastudio can't find my DIGI 9652 anymore. I get an initialization error. #218. "GigaStudio is experiencing initialization problems - error 218"

3. I am now getting the close SX and wait 3 minutes bug. Never had this until now. It sure is a pain.

4. While zooming in i get long screen pauses between zooms. Playback is fine while zooming. But this is a new phenomenom.

I really don't want to reinstall. I tried system restore and it didn't fix any of these issues.

i guess this is what i get for not ghosting it.

Anyone else ever experience #1 ???