Follow argus’s proposed cure to the dot.
After all has been cleared/cleansed up,
then you could consider the following additional procedure -
as it could be of some help.
You may have some bad clusters in your paging file.
Go to Start/Run and type chkdsk C: /R and press enter.
Now press Y and restart the computer.
The Check Disk Utility will try and fix any errors.
If all is to no avail here is some proposed method to circumvent from TSF Team’s Spunk.Funk:
You can right click My Computer/Properties/Advanced/Performance/Settings/Advanced/Virtual Memory/Change. change to NO Paging File.
Click Apply/OK. Run Check Disk again. Go to Start/Run and type chkdsk C: /R and press enter. Press a Y and reboot the computer.
Check Disk runs at startup. After the computer restarts go back and set the Paging File to System Managed.
Removing the paging file allows Check Disk to check that area of the HDD if bad clusters it will mark them as un-usable and not save data to them.
polonus