an unresponsive pc can be
caused by many (many) things
and what you have noted may
only be the tip of an iceburg.
case and point: if you had a
virgin windows o.s. with no
other software installed, your pc
would likely be funtioning at the
speed of light. so at this time we
have no idea about your system
other than your mentioning of an hp
program.
in my experience, hp makes d*mn
good printers and i have 3. but their
softwares, sometimes bundled
are simply cr*p, poorly written, bloated
and likely to be spyware.
a) i would suggest to uninstall that
hp web share as it may be hogging
all your resources and causing havic
for your cpu and passed onto your o.s.
b) run a utility to tune up your system like
microsoft one care
or systemmechanic.
the above are tools that inspect and
repair a wide spectrum of areas, most
that are overlooked or off limits to ordinary
pc users.
however, there is a lot of information for
regular pc users and here is a reasonable
starting point:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone//optimize.mspx
not all of the suggestions contained in
a single webpage at the above may work
or apply to your issue, but some will and
there are others via the "related links".
another thing that i could suggest
is that you can boot into "safemode"
and see if in that mode the system seems
more responsive than normal mode.
if so, then this would be a helpful clue.
keeps us posted....!
- db
