folks this ain't rocket science. It's already been determined that the latest update for adobe flash (piece of junk that it is) is the problem. No matter what you read here, you can't uninstall it. But you do have an option
- Use System Restore (built into windows) to restore your computer to a date previous to the day the issues started for you
- after the computer is restored and back up go to services in the control panel and find windows update service and disable it.
Problem solved and it won't come back until you turn windows updates back on. Hopefully by the time you do that, the idiots at Adobe will have corrected the issue.