Windows 7 Programs Loading Problem

[VsUK]

I wasn't sure what topic to use as this is a strange one i cant seem to fix so here i am.

The problem is programs not loading when i click the pinned shortcut or start menu links or even going directly to the exe files themselves & clicking, it looks like its loading as the loading icon appears next to the mouse cursor but then goes & nothing happens. The programs show up in the Process tree in task manager but don't actually load up fully, for example firefox when it loads up fully is normally using around 55,000k until i start browsing & then increases as it should, however when it don't load up the memory usage is exactly the same each time 116k. This happens to most of the software installed apart from what i have to load up on boot like my av, fw n other utilities but cold loading seems to be problematic.

The OS is a recent install of Win7 64bit Ultimate & all installed fine & worked fine apart from the system rating doesn't appear to work when i click the rate this computer button nothing happens. The HD is fairly new a 1tb partitioned into 5 sections & has been fine up until a few days ago. I recently did a boot time defrag & once it completed which took a few hours everything appeared to be working fine & then when i turned it on today its back as normal.

Not sure what to do other that a new install which i really hope to avoid.

Thanks

 

[VsUK]

Yep this apparently has a positive effect but it is sometimes annoying having to wait for a reboot to actually shut down & reboot itself as it can hang a while on the Shutting Down page. It just also occurred to me, since my re install of windows 7 & all was running fine & had yet to experience the problem until yesterday morning, but the night before i did a disk defrag using a 3rd party software like TuneUp Utilities or Paragon or Diskeeper n so forth which i have all 3 & once completed i shut down for the night, maybe Defragging the disks has a negative effect? Its one annoying problem no one seems to know of a fix or cause. I originally presumed it was down to my 5th partition on my 1tb sata drive so i reduced it to 4 partitions but clearly it wasn't that or not just that.

Maybe someone with more technical knowledge than myself could comment? would be nice to have a 3rd person involved in this thread

 

[ZippoLag]

No.. I don't think deffraggin could do this.

Out of curiosity: what components does your PC have? I'm gonna go ahead and try to find a common factor in this..

I reccomend we all install Link Removedand after opening use the "Publish Snapshot..." command in the File menu. It doesn't reveal any personal data or anything, here's mine for starters:
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/Jr8clWhoIOn7i3wh4dtZ0Cm

edit: d'oh! I'm not posting from the PC that has the errors, so this doesn't count for the statistcs, but alas, a token of trust if you will.