Take the 2-minute tour ×  On a fully updated Win7 x64, every so
often the system stalls for a minute or so. This has been going
on for a couple months now. By stalling I mean the mouse
responds and I can move windows around, but any window, any
program, that is open becomes whiteish when I select it AND any
new programs will not open. It doesn't matter what kind of
program it is. When the stall stops all clicks I made (open new
programs for example) take effect.  Nothing shows up
consistently (as in every time this happens) in the event log.
Today though I was able to find something, but it doesn't reveal
much other than the "system was unresponsive". It's a 7009 for
"A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for
the Windows Error Reporting Service service to connect."  It
doesn't matter if I have any USB devices plug-in or not. I've
ran Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes.  While the
machine is unresponsive, I've noticed that Drive D (the other
partition on the single internal HD in