Processes won't die/internet won't work
 

Hi! I have two problems. The most worrisome is that lately some processes are freezing on me, and it's impossible to kill them, even with the task manager, even trying to go for the process tree. At times I have to restart my whole computer to start Firefox. The second, which I'm suspecting is my hardware, is that my wireless is not working stably, even when I'm right next to the antenna. I'm usually upstairs, where my girlfriend gets internet just fine. As you can imagine, this is problematic. Regardless, I'd appreciate any help you can offer. Thanks!

Have you scanned for viruses yet? That would be my first concern with an inability to kill processes. I've never heard of that happening without some funky voodoo going on. It may also solve your connection issues.

If you can post both a DxDiag, and a HijackThis! Report, I'd be much obliged. :)

I've scanned, scanned again, scanned in safe mode, switched to Avast! and scanned at startup, and maybe should scan again since avast updated. ^^

One DxDiag coming right up! And, believe me, I'm obliged. (One note: I recently posted one here due to technical problems, and ended up reverting my driver to an older version.)

Edit: I just realized that my files didn't actually upload. Here they are. Thanks, again!

This is odd. I don't see anything, myself, that is wrong with those computers via Hijack or DxDiag.

I'm going to ask the age of the laptop, and if it's suffered any physical damage. Mine has circumstances similar to yours, and mine was chewed by a dog. >.>

No older than two months, I'm pretty sure, and as far as I know it's never had physical problems, though I have lately been moving it and carrying it while it's on lately. I did notice that the processes that seem to freeze are all related to my internet connection issues (Steam, Firefox, utorrent and are the big ones). Does that shed any light on anything? Thanks, at any rate.

I had an ability to close some processes with my old laptop but I found if I told taskmanager to kill them, then logged out of the computer and logged back in it would kill them.
Don't know if that will help you at all.

I'm having similar problems with Firefox and Bitcomment. I used to use Azureus before it became Vuze and started freezing every time I closed it. Then I switched to uTorrent but that also froze every time I closed it. If I remember they all rely at least in part on Java. Firefox and Bitcomment also seem to have giant memory leaks. I know nothing is wrong with my desktop so as near as I can tell its some sort of software conflict possibly involving Java. No idea how to fix it I've just learned to live with it.

I agree with the Java idea. Try updating your Java client.

Thanks much! It seems to have worked. Funny how simple things can mess up huge things, eh?

Edit: Nope! utorrent is still frozen. It may be insignificant, but I am also getting, right this moment, audio issues. All audio longer than a ping is coming through broken up, as though the bass was broken in my headphones AND my speakers. This has happened before.