All Programs Are 'NOT RESPONDING'

Hello and Thanks in advance,

I did not search within this site because the situation i'm in does not make it practical to do so.

I have a relatively new laptop, HP Pavilion dv7, and the past week or so I get a recurring 'NOT RESPONDING' message on any program I have open or try and use. It spins for about 20 to 30 sec's, sometimes longer and then recovers.

On a normal day I have my Outlook open with 1 or 2 windows open for messaging, Word, Excel x 2 or 3 spr. sheets, Msngr, and 1 or 2 web pages on IE. I am also on our network for file access & storage at either of the 2 offices I work out of. Out of all these programs, only Outlook will occasionally actually stop working, shut down then restart.

On any given program mentioned above I get that dreaded 'NOT RESP.' and so far, it's occurred 3x while writing this message.

I've cut down the startup items and that appeared to have helped for a bit, but then returned to the normal pauses. I've also updated everything I could possibly think of and the only update I haven't installed is SP-1 for the 32-bit system since I am on a 64-bit system.

Our IT guy doesn't seem to be able to figure it out. Any help is very much appreciated.

I'll try it now and let you know how it turns out. Thx!

No violations were found with with sfc /scannow.
Any other suggestions?

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I am running on Norton Antivirus, pre-loaded at purchase.
Firewall - Windows Firewall is on.

Thanks karlssnooks.

BTW, i ran ccleaner at first before i figured out to go to the Tools icon, anyhow, I attached those results. I did not rnu the cleaner on those items. Let me know what you think, thanks for the help. Lossi

Alright karlsnooks, so far so good. The real test wll be tomorrow morning when I go to the office and get on the network and try and run all my programs. I'll provide an update then, thanks for now. lossi44