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On Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:19:00 PM UTC-4, wrote:


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July 31:

Just a GENERAL UPDATE on the condition of my hard drive.

My HP Pavilion's Hardware diagnostics app deployed as it does every month and found zero problems with item including but not limited to:

"Hard Drive: Random Tests, funnel tests, surface scans, SMART tests

NVIDIA Video driver Network cable, TCP/IP

CMOS Checksum, Pattern test

Pentium Cache, register tests, CCU, multicore all ok"

So I honestly think we can rule out the hard-drive and hardware.

I'm beginning to feel that the focus is on two areas: Windows Media Player(I looked for updates and MS says mine is the latest and all updates installed), and "free" mp3 sites.

I no longer use limewire(ran it from late 2008 for about a year. BeeMP3 and such sites are drying up anyhow, so I no longer bother with them.


I've made CD-R backups of mp3s from on-line resources and have my CD collection as the ultimate backup of the rest of them.

So the best thing I can say to you folks is: STAY AWAY from "free" sites: you might also be downloading a major headache. Go Amazon, iTunes, be straight!

-CC