I've had the Orange CD program for a couple of months now and had no problems with it until yesterday. I believe that what happened is that a Microsoft security patch, automatically downloaded, mucked up my laptop. I immediately started to get major hang-ups in my use of Internet Explorer 7, so I downloaded Firefox (which I had been meaning to do for a while anyway) and the switch in browser fixed the Internet problem. But when I try to open Orange CD Suite now, I'm getting the same sort of hangs. It opens but takes several minutes to do so; CPU usage spikes to 100% and the computer is unusable during the hangs. Orange CD is now also very slow to use once it is up and running; it had always been lightning-fast before.

Does anyone have any insights here? Has anyone had similar problems? I'd remove the Microsoft patch, but I can't find it in my "Add/Remove Programs" even when I look through the updates lists. I ran my Computer Associates virus and spyware scans and found: no viruses; the usual assortment of spyware which I quarantined.