EPTFor instance - When running Dark Souls, it will randomly just minimise and i'll briefly see this program in the task bar. When running a game in fullscreen windowed, i will see it pop up and "unfocus" the game for about 1/2 second and then return to normal.
The program looks like 2 cogs (1 big, 1 small, overlapping, im sure you know what i mean.)
Ive tried to locate it to the best of my ability but the symptoms happen too fast for me to catch, ive sat and stared at task manager trying to see it but its impossible, sometimes i notice 2 new programs startup and close, sometimes nothing happens, 90% of the time i get the cogs on the task bar.
I dont think i installed any "dodgy" software and i uninstalled anything i had in the last week and completely cleaned my system, the problem persisted.
I looked up online what could be causing it and there were no definitive answers, other then to port all my settings to a new windows profile, this fixed the issue for about 4 days and then it returned.
I believe this started when i was installing fallout: new vegas mods and it went a bit edgy (nexus mod manager just crashing during installation of anything) i put it down to program instability, as it is still in beta.
Following this, ive uninstalled everything i could think of to be of harm (recent games, programs, crap) and run cleaners and spyware / virus scans (CCleaner, Spybot, AVG) multiple times before and after uninstalling things and have had no success. Note: Googling will show this as an issue with AVG, i installed AVG after this problem began just to scan for viruses.
Ive gone into all my folders and cleared out crap and strange programs sitting there that look like they shouldnt be and nothings worked.
I know you will all tell me to run a clean install of win7 but i cant atm, i lost my install disk in the move to sri lanka and downloading a new version would take forever + be expensive on my download limit here (fucking tight internet companies jesus.)
Does anyone have any ideas on how to help me and solve this issue? Thanks
