Electronics

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I have an aging HP desktop that runs XP and I use Internet Explorer as my browser. I'm current with all my Windows updates. Overall, except for the horrific noise the pc makes for two minutes when I power it up each morning, it'd been running ok. I have all the important stuff backed up externally, so if she dies, she dies. And when it goes, I'll buy a new computer.

Anyway... it's just started doing a weird thing. When I click on the red X to close my browser, it doesn't close right away. It either takes 4-5 seconds for the browser to close or I have to kill the task through task manager. This just started happening today.

And, sometimes when I click on the back arrow to go to the previous screen, again, there's either a delay or it just won't go. I can click on the previous screen arrow 150 times and it just doesn't go. BUT... my pc isn't frozen. It will still let me do whatever I want on the current screen, or I can go to another website. This has been happening for the last few months.

I have cleared my temp files, history and cookies. I've done Defrag and the PC Cleanup thing. I've run full scans of Malwarebytes, my Antivirus provider and a full scan (that took hours) of Microsoft Safety Scanner. None of them have found any viruses, malware, etc.

Any ideas?