Windows does weird stuff under Boot Camp

I know this sounds like a Boot Camp question, but I'm pretty sure I'm better off here. Allow me to explain:
I use Mac and Windows equally on my MacBook Pro, but on occasion, I will load up Windows through Boot Camp and everything will start going crazy. By that, I mean that when Task Manager is brought up, almost all the background programs are running (even ones which don't normally run). In addition, the System background item is running around 30-50% of the memory. All of these things together causes my system to bog at 100% usage.
I assume this is Windows conflicting with hardware in some way, because this isn't a typical problem with Windows XP (not that I know of anyway). Here are a few additional facts I recently realized which might help to solve this problem:
1. When this happens, I try to shut off the computer to no avail. Explorer hangs up, then tries to shut down, then says it can't be shut down. After hitting the "End Now" button, the computer hangs on an empty screen (meaning you can see my background, you can see my cursor, but I can't access anything...Task Manager included).
2. The last time this happened was right after I disconnected my USB ported external hard drive.
3. I am running NTFS-3g with MACFuse (or whatever it is that allows you to write to the Windows drive on the Mac side) as well as rEFIt (the boot system which allows for triple+ OS booting through Boot Camp)
Usually when this weird phenomenon happens, I have to boot up the Mac side of my computer (which complains that the Windows partition is "still running" and can't mount it) and then boot back into the Windows side (this is a sketchy solution at best).
I'll pose this question on the Boot Camp support board as well in case it's inappropriate here. Please help! This isn't exactly crippling my system (no damage has been done as far as I can tell) but it's really #%@&#@$!% annoying!

I believe NTFS-3g is how the Mac drive recognizes the NTFS format (it's just a more specific name). I could be wrong on this, but I recently formatted my hard drive and had to re-setup Boot Camp. Before I installed MACFuse, I believe it was recognizing my partition as NTFS-3g
At first glance, I would agree with you on the rEFIt and MACFuse prognosis. However, when I resetup Boot Camp, I did not use rEFIt initially and still had the problem. It might be MACFuse, exept MACFuse should only be affecting how the Mac side mounts the Windows partition.
MacDrive doesn't help me here. I don't care about seeing my Mac partition on the Windows side of things.
I have a 60 GB partition, so that makes me almost 99% certain I am not running a FAT32 partition. There may be ways to run a hard drive/partition in FAT32 while exceeding the typical 32 GB standard, but I'm not aware of any.

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adnans wrote:
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