[The Cajun]

(i.e. “page is not responding”).

Have seen that with XP when something is eating up a bunch of processor time or memory problems.

I am assuming you're running Win 7 since you said the machine is less than 2 years old.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yes, Windows 7. The prior computer I used was XP and something started inexplicably eating up nearly all the memory. Took it for repairs and they said it wasn’t worth bothering with.