Quote Originally Posted by confus-ed
We all do & the more complicated you make them the worse it gets , I think we sussed it already didn't we ? you made 'it' go away when you un-installed direct connect ?

I'm still very 'reluctant' (& busy) with that list ... help me out & tell me the software you want installed as many of those entries will relate - its the ones we never asked for that are the issues with 'malware' .
The problem went away after I rebooted a couple of times and DC++ was still on the system the last time I solved the problem. I dunno why, but I keep thinking it's a physical hardware problem; jza734 mentioned a keyboard issue a few posts ago, so I'm going to try out the suggestion that was given then (I didn't try it yet since this problem really hadn't come up previously even when I had all the various software I used installed, and I don't see any possible issue with the keyboard).

The software that the HijackThis log refers to are all items I use one time or another. I'm sure I can maybe tweak my startup to see what can happen, but I'm going to run that Dell Diagnostic test first.