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So I'm not sure if these are all related or not, but here are the problems I'm dealing with:
It basically started when I fell asleep with the computer on and one of those stupid Windows Vista Updates things started on its own. I was half asleep and shut the computer (it's a Toshiba laptop) during step 3 when it said "please don't turn off computer." Well anyway when I reopened it was still at that step so I waited for awhile and it didn't progress or anything. I tried a few times just to restart it and it eventually worked and everything seemed to be working normally.
Since then, I've noticed these problems.
-Adobe Photoshop won't open, even after I restart. I click it and the hourglass shows up but then goes away and nothing happens; however, it shows up in the Task Manager under "Processes."
-The software for my webcam won't open, and my webcam won't work on MSN (but it works on online webcam sites like Stickam)
-There is only like 1 MB of space left on my hard drive, so I thought "okay I should remove some programs" and I tried to do that and THIS happened:
I started with just trying to uninstall Google Chrome because I never use it. So I went to the programs list where you go to do that - highlighted Google Chrome, clicked "uninstall" - Nothing happened. I clicked it again and it said "please wait while it's finished." I restarted my computer a few times (which probably isn't good for it at all) because the bottom startbar froze and the same thing happened whenever I tried to uninstall something.
It also doesn't seem to be properly deleting things from my desktop.
I also tried to defragment my computer and that ended up just freezing things by opening it up.
The last thing I can think of that's wrong with it is that the icon on the far right that shows my internet connection status is showing it as not connected when, obviously, I am connected to the internet.
What baffles me is that with all of these problems, I can still run AIM, Windows Live Messenger, a chat program I go on, and Firefox with multiple tabs all at the same time with no delay/lag or anything.
I didn't even know what to begin to Google so hopefully some nerds here can help me. There's definitely not enough space on my computer to download anything so hopefully that's not going to be what everyone says.
But yeah! Thanks in advance if you even read all of this.
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