Corey, I posted in beta this issue. The slow issue and freeze issue are now gone. I uninstalled the cumulative update
http://www.microsoft.com/?kbid=3164496 and all my issues have gone. I will test more and run a simulated tournament tomorrow and see how things run. It should run approx. 3 hrs. I have also disabled windows updates.
The list of files is conciderable. So I don't think i'm going to trouble shoot. As for sounds, I do have those as well, but they work ok now too. I could make some installs possibly the DLLs and see what if any cause problems, or see if MS changed any sound files, like Groove.
Alan
PS. I used to be a programmer years ago and used many DLL's from MS. So, I may find something.