I have some major weirdo problems with my fiance's Laptop...

I'll try to be as clear and concise as possible:

-The Laptop is a Packard Bell Intel Celeron M CPU 410 @ 1.46GHz.

-It has a Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (2002) build to it and has Service Pack 1 installed on it. I always run and make sure that Windows Update is active and that we're downloading the critical updates asap.

About 2 weeks ago it started to act up. The windows were hanging a lot and the whole system was groggy, slow-sluggish like a wet sponge(I love 'Airplane!').

To start up Windows it would , and still does, take around 2-3 minutes, whereas before it took oh a good minute.

I figured it may be due to a mass of files and folders on the desktop, so I moved them accordingly into 'My Documents', so the Desktop is now clear and has only shortcut icons.

I ran a full antivirus scan, and it took too long-nearly 6 hours.

I ran a CHKDSK and found out that 4kb were of bad sectors.

I defragged and freed up as much memory as possible, deleting internet caches, etc.

On the system I've installed:

-Kaspersky Antivirus (6.0.2.678)

-Keygold Secrue

-Windows Defender

and the month trial of Tune Up Utilities 2008.

I've run the Tune Up Utilities many times to try to correct any problems with the Laptop and it find errors on the Registry, Application files, etc and always corrects them, no 'unsuccesfulls'.

The Laptop now works Ok, but it still is uber slow at starting up and when Windows does finally appear, the start up jingle is really garbled.

I've tried to do a 'System Restore', and it did work once, but now it doesn't want to work for some odd reason. I figured I'd try to go back before the weirdness began.

Also, if it helps anyone, when I listen to a radio station online, and open up a window, or open a document, it too garbles.

If anyone can help please do!!!!!!It's driving me nuts!!!!

Rik