uhm, i dont know when it exactly started happening, but i first saw it in December right after install of Rocketdock. I bought this gateway laptop in the summer of 2007. And it wasnt like this before. I dont know what other software i installed between the times it was OK and wasnt since i dont really know when it started. But wait, ill check uninstall programs in control panel to see the install dates...
Ok, these are the ones installed since November 24 2008. In chronological order. Avast Antivirus, Ventrilo, Command and Conquer: The First Decade, MSXLML 4.0 SP2 Parser and SDK (idk what this is), Firefox (3.0.5) World of Warcraft, Google Chrome, Rocketdock 1.3.5, Audacity 1.3.7 (unicode). There are more afterwards bit i dont think they affected my system.