Ok, so weird stuff happening.

[pipnina]

For some reason, for the last few months, skype has been popping up (definately part of skype as well, it does the flashy thing and makes the "ding" if I click off of the popup onto skype) with messages such as "Are you sure you want to leave this page" and "The security certificate for this page is out of date" but after googling the issue it was determined to be just ads skype was showing. But the last few days skype freezes every 10 minutes and needs to be killed in Task Manager and then restarted, and now no longer launches without freezing.

 

Same day, steam told me it couldn't update Space Engineers because of "Disk read error". after following the steam support page about the error and running the windows hard drive diagnotic (4 hours!!!) I am none the wiser about that (nothing to tell me what it found or did after it finished, although SE updated by itself after that). But now Skype won't install after I uninstalled it (sits ther on the "Installing skype" window for about 30 minutes now) to try and fix the issue and Battle.net won't launch (Only the launcher for Battle.net loads). Also, Internet Explorer won't launch, either (another google search said that IE might be causing Skype to act weird if it got affected by malware.) it just produces a process in Task Manager that takes up 3MB of RAM.

 

Really stuck here.

 

Uisng:

 

Windows 7

Core I5

Gigabyte z77x-d3h

GTX670

16GB Ripjawz X ddr3

ST31000524AS HDD <--- possibly the problem? (already sourcing a new one)

 

 

If anyone knows what could be wrong, please tell me as I'm stumped. :huh:

 

Ty

 

    ~pip

[yannickverc]

All I know is that skype is a piece of shit software.

[GalacticRuler]

For some reason, for the last few months, skype has been popping up (definately part of skype as well, it does the flashy thing and makes the "ding" if I click off of the popup onto skype) with messages such as "Are you sure you want to leave this page" and "The security certificate for this page is out of date" but after googling the issue it was determined to be just ads skype was showing. But the last few days skype freezes every 10 minutes and needs to be killed in Task Manager and then restarted, and now no longer launches without freezing.

 

Same day, steam told me it couldn't update Space Engineers because of "Disk read error". after following the steam support page about the error and running the windows hard drive diagnotic (4 hours!!!) I am none the wiser about that (nothing to tell me what it found or did after it finished, although SE updated by itself after that). But now Skype won't install after I uninstalled it (sits ther on the "Installing skype" window for about 30 minutes now) to try and fix the issue and Battle.net won't launch (Only the launcher for Battle.net loads). Also, Internet Explorer won't launch, either (another google search said that IE might be causing Skype to act weird if it got affected by malware.) it just produces a process in Task Manager that takes up 3MB of RAM.

 

Really stuck here.

 

Uisng:

 

Windows 7

Core I5

Gigabyte z77x-d3h

GTX670

16GB Ripjawz X ddr3

ST31000524AS HDD <--- possibly the problem? (already sourcing a new one)

 

 

If anyone knows what could be wrong, please tell me as I'm stumped. :huh:

 

Ty

 

    ~pip

Have you run an antivirus?

[pipnina]

All I know is that skype is a piece of shit software.

This is true, but AFAIK it's the only one of it's kind...

 

Have you run an antivirus?

I have not, I will do that now.

[yannickverc]

This is true, but AFAIK it's the only one of it's kind...

Teamspeak all the way my friend

[pipnina]

Teamspeak all the way my friend

I like TS, but it needs to have someone host a server and can't share files/images and can't screenshare. Also don't have contacts or PMs

[Naeaes]

You can use Seagate Seatools to test the disk. There are plenty of third party options but I'd advice on the seatools. Otherwise you risk getting false readings.

[yannickverc]

I like TS, but it needs to have someone host a server and can't share files/images and can't screenshare. Also don't have contacts or PMs

Yea server part is an issue for some people. File sharing is easy with some websites nowadays (skype file sharing is actually garbage) and screensharing can be done with google hangouts easily