- Nov 26, 2014
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I very recently built a new PC: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6np9Q7. It has been working very good for gaming, photo/video editing, and just surfing the web. However, something really strange has happened twice now. Sometimes when I download a .exe file via Chrome and try to launch it, it just flat out won't work. When I go to "show in folder", and try to open it, it won't work. When I try to drag it to the recycling bin or I try to right click and delete it, it won't work. It doesn't bring up a message or anything, it just doesn't do anything. If I hover over the file with my mouse, it brings up the "working in background" cursor, with the spinning blue thing. Strangest of all though, is that I can't click on search results in Chrome. Both times this has happened where when I looked something up, I wasn't able to click on the results. I wouldn't get the little finger cursor. Beyond that though, the computer seems to work fine during this period of time. After anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes later, the hard drive will start clicking away and all of the instances of the executable I was trying to open pop up simultaneously. As soon as this happens, I can click on links and delete the file just fine. This has never happened to me on any other computer. The two files I was trying to open were a paint.net plugin installer and a Minecraft server .exe file. They seem completely unrelated beyond the fact that there both .exe files. This is very frustrating when it happens, and I'm curious as to what causes it. Any suggestions or ideas of why this is happening are greatly appreciated.
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