Help! Various Problems and no clue!

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Evening folks,

I'm hoping someone can help me in regards to a few issues I'm having with my pc.
The first problem I have is that sometimes when I start up my computer and try and click on a programme it just hangs there and won't do anything until I reset and restart the computer, this has been happening for a while now and I've tried defragging, virus scans, malware scans etc and nothing seems to work.

The second problem I have is all of a sudden youtube videos were loading up extremely slowly and at times the video would just stop right in the middle and it would look like that was the end, you then press the refresh page button and the video would start again and you'd fine that it was actually in the middle of the video.
One thing I did notice at this time was flash player kept crashing so I downgraded it to 10.1 again but even then it's still pretty much the same, it just doesn't crash as much.

The last problem I'm going to bring up is that my blu ray software (Cyberlink PowerDVD) just stopped working. Every time I tried to open a file it would just come up with an error message saying an unexpected error occured and it would close down.

Any advice is greatly appreciated folks as I've now spent close to 3 full weekends trying to find out what's wrong with my computer.

Forgot to mention - Operating system is Windows 7 Ultimate and browsers are Firefox and Chrome and the youtube issue is with both.
 
I'm really not looking forward to formatting the computer as I can't find a lot of my discs, including the operating system and Office!
 
Is this really the only way? I'm really hoping I can find other options to try before formatting my computer.
That's really my worst case scenario at the moment.
 
Thanks for all your help guys, I didn't manage to get a chance to check all the hardware, I am however going to replace my hard drive with a new SSD.
I'm also planning on updating to Windows 8 so hopefully my problems will be resolved by that.
I did need a complete clear out of my system anyway and I suppose this is probably the ideal time.

Anyway just wanted to drop in and say thanks for the help it was really appreciated! :)
 
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