Ok, this is getting ridiculous. I let my PC install some more Windows Updates last night, and when I started it up today, it was doing the same weird things. There's a 15 second delay before displaying a folder's contents, for instance.

So, I've had to reinstall Windows again. How wonderful, another 3 houts of my life wasted.

Anyone got any recomendations for Norton Ghost-like software? There's no shitting way I'm touching Windows Update till I have a working ghost image of my C drive.