Last night my computer was RUNNING just fine, until I downloaded and began using some cellphone ringtone program, and suddenly everything skips around.  When I move the mouse, it jumps and skips instead of just moving, and every sound or music that COMES from the computer skips too.  Also, the computer takes a lot longer, at least three times as long, to startup.  It's a laptop computer with windows XP, and I've tried removing the program, and it didn't help.  It seemed LIKE as I was running a lot of programs, it started to slow down the computer, but even after I closed all the programs and let the computer cool off, it still skipped around.IronTailFratley...  Well , how about ....... opening up the task manager .....
ctrl/alt/del  ....... and seeing what applications are running .  You should have some idea of what should be running .......
Then ,  as a precaution ..... turn-off system restore .......  start/control panel/ system ...... click the system restore tab ...and turn off system restore on all drives .......

If you don't haveSpybot ...........  http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2471.html    d/l it and then get the latest updates ....... then do a full system scan with it .  Remove anything found .

If you don't have Ewido ....... http://www.majorgeeks.com/Ewido_security_suite_d4677.html   d/l it and get the latest updates ...and then do a full system scan ....... remove anything it finds .

Then reboot into safe mode ........ Run a full scan with your anti virus .......
remove anything it finds ........
reboot back into normal mode and see how things are ....... If they are back to normal ........ Turn system restore back on . .... if they aren't , d/l ... hijackthis ........ http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html   ...... run and save logfile and post it here .

dl65  HMM... thank you, but why do I turn off system restore?  won't that take away my ability to restore the system back to the point where the computer ran fine?Sounds like a Virus to me. You got to WATCH out what you are downloading, it's a jungle out there!

If I were you I will back up all my files and do a clean installation.

MacPC IronTailFratley....  The reason I suggested turning off the system restore .....was that if the problem turns out to be a trojan , they like to inhabit the system restore files ....... So even if you had removed it , it would still be in your system restore files and reinfect the system.

dl65  when you deleted the program did you deltete the folders too


start >my computer>local drive>program files>look for the programs folder that you delteteed and deltete that too.