My computer will act fine for awhile then it will not allow me to access any of my programs. I can double click all day and nothing happens. There are no error messages, just after a “soft boot” it says the particular program is “not responding”.I have defragged, run Scan Disk, scanned through Norton (both the one installed on the computer plus I had Symantec do a scan from their webpage), Scan Registry and probably a few things I have since forgoten about. When it does this (it is not at any particular time), the hard drive makes a shirling sound like it is trying to start up and then winds down, then starts winding up and then winds down again. It ultimately does not start whatever program I am trying to access. My next step is toturn the computer off, wait awhile and sometimes it restarts (after a rest) and things work fine until the next time.
Help!!