before changing hard drive I would suggest running(booting) your windows cd.
Its worked in the past for me. Windows get corrupted, they also get viruses
like you susspected but the only way to see which is to re-boot your
original cd(s). Good luck. miraculousmike

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Diane K <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Listers,
>
> My computer freezes after a very short time once I get into Windows.  I
> switched to my bootable backup, and now *it's* freezing.  My HD's are not
> even half full.  I'm thinking it's a virus, though I run AVG and ZoneAlarm.
>
> I'm thinking I'm going to need to start fresh on another hard drive.
>
> Any ideas before I go through all this.
>
> Could it be something running under processes in Task Manager?
>
> Something popped up from ZoneAlarm with the word Juggler which I denied.
>
> XP Pro on an HP computer, 200GB HD, 1 or 2GB Ram.
>
>
> Diane Kroeckel
>
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