For quite a while my computer has been running very slow and freezing up frequently. I'm getting really tired of looking at that Hour Glass. I've also had problems right clicking on files for a Menu and it takes sometimes more than a minute for the Menu to load. The computer is a Lenovo ideacentre and I am running Windows 7 Pro. The installed memory is 6.00GB, 64 bit system, and there is a total of 802 GB of Free Space on my Drive C. There are an average of 60 processes running at any one time. I began to wonder just what programs might be slowing it down as I do have a lot of security programs as well as Microsoft Office for Home and Student. When I clicked on the Task Manager and "Show Processes from all users" I noticed that there was one process that the name of it in the Description column would blink on and off. It was the COM Surrogate. The rest of the line would remain, but the description would blink intermittently. Now I notice that when I start the Task Manager there are 2 COM Surrogate processes listed, but they will both disappear, this time the whole line and do not reappear. Is there a way to correct this slowing & freezing problem and do you think it is related to the COM Surrogate process? Thank you