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Cant download programs, control panel freezing
A few days ago i built my new computer. Its my first build and the parts are all correctly installed. Uploaded Windows 7 home premium OEM and that was fine. when on desktop, uploaded the drives from the ASUS disk. Uploaded the driver for my graphics card. Did a restart. All fine on restart. Downloaded my Panda virus software, set up the firewall, downloaded malware bytes. ran the winodws updates. Restart was fine. Then this is where things went downhill.
Wanted my usual programs such as msn and microsoft security essentials. so i downloaded MSE, then downloaded windows live essentials. Thought everything was fine and went to grab Steam to get ready to download my games. When i tried to start the install for steam it popped up the little window you get after download finished but it wouldnt start the install. I tried to open the control panel but when i clicked on any of the options (like uninstall program) it didnt respond. it would not let me close the window, wouldnt let me do anything. tried to restart the install of steam but it kept opening and shutting before the actual install part. At the same time, when i tried to log into windows live it would freeze right after login. Tried a system restore but it wouldnt do it. Tried it in safe more but when it restored it still was the same.
Ended up doing a reinstall of windows and started the whole process again. Drivers, panda, malwarebytes... Decided to get steam first and the same thing happened again; it didnt load up. BUT this time i could access the control panel. i did some looking and eventually found that i needed to do something with java. So i tried to download the 64bit version of it and no luck. and i got stressy so tried the 32 bit and that worked. I then tried the steaminstall and that finally worked.
So atm my computer is stable, but i dont have windows live or mse as i am afraid it will lock up again. any ideas on what this problem might be?