
Hey Fiz'iks,
Welcome to PCHF. No problem on not knowing where to put your thread, I will be happy to move it for you.
Now on to your more pressing issue, there are lots of reasons for the symptoms you are describing. It could be a malware infections (darn those rlms

), or it could be that your registry is bloated, etc., etc..
Let's start by ruling out malware, can you please carefully follow the instructions for PreWork in my signature, and make sure to post back both the ewido, and the HijackThis logs back here. Thanks,
Looking forward to your reply,
TTFN
LGW