Hp HDX 18 freezes and loses sound

Hi all, I'm hoping that someone can help me fix a problem I've been having
I recently installed windows seven and it worked fine for a while. Then at one point the entire computer slowed down an extreme amount, I ran some programs to speed it up and it started working fine again.
But now while certain programs are running (like firefox, windows media player, and AIM) they freeze and need to be restarted. Once they freeze my system doesn't play any sounds at all and in order to get sound back I need to restart the entire system.
I've tried doing a system restore to before the system slowed down but it didn't help, and I've checked and I'm not missing any drivers for anything on my computer.
any ideas on what I can do to fix this?

This sounds familiar to me as I had a user with the same issue once. It started after he installed AT&T Connection Manager, the only fix, even after uninstalling, was to re-image the machine. Of course after I re-imaged him what did he do? He went right back and re-installed the software and blew up the mouse and keyboard again. Not a fun experience for a tech like me.
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