Audio Pauses (Graphics keep going)

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Lately, the past 2 or 3 gigs, the audio pauses have started up on me again. Seems like every time I do a Windows update, or an anti-virus update, or sometimes even a Hoster update, the computer gets flakey for a few days.

Now, I know that there are approximately 25+ things running under task manager when I start up the PC. I don't open ANY other programs while running Hoster. This is just stuff that starts up. I don't have the PC in front of me, but I could probably post the list in the next couple of days.

Can someone tell the only things I should see running under task manager?

I don't know why it has started up with this again, but it's a very similar audio pause as the PHM problem a lot of us were having months back, only it doesn't discriminate against a certain brand, and it has nothing to do with graphics fading in and out. It did it on Sound Choice, DK, and PHM last night, 7 times.

Now, I haven't changed to 3.108 yet, but I doubt that the Hoster version is the problem. The PC was fine up until last week, when I updated Windows, anti-virus, etc. Then, I noticed these problems.

Anything in particular I should be checking?