Net/Game Crash/Freezing Problems

[DBoy1612]

Well, here's a weird one. I'll explain from the beginning.

Yesterday, for some reason both my Skype and my Browsers (IE and Firefox) lost connection out of random, they just stopped working. Though, Xfire was still running as I was able to keep conversations going without problems. I rebooted, and everything was fine after that.

Now, today, I was playing as RM, was on and off the game for hours (closing and opening like I usually do), and just as I dock to leave the house my game crashes to desktop instantly. Ya, it's happened before, normal FL bug that happens every now and then. But now, when I tried to go back in my computer freezes completely, Skype calls dies, Xfire dies, and music stops playing, everything was gone... So I rebooted, tried again, same problem.

I reinstalled Freelancer, same problem... Now, I began to think it was more then just Freelancer. So I tried loading up Counter Strike, and Half Life 2. Those didn't freeze my computer, but applications themselves froze forcing me to reboot again whenever I tried to connect to a sever.

Now, the only things I've changed by hand between yesterday and now is my Windows theme. I went from the custom Vista one (that has been running for months), to Windows classic (That comes with the damn computer!) as my Computer runs faster with that. I have tried changing it back, but nada... Another guess of mine that Windows Updates downloaded some crap that caused this (I will be turning it off once I figure out how to fix it.)

Now, everything else seems to be working fine. Firefox, IE, Xfire, Skype, all works... Except any online game. I have disabled my Firewall, Anti Virus, and pretty much shut down everything possible and tried playing a game.

Nothing I can think of works, any help is greatly appreciated.

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