So, my problem with slowness was due to my hard drive, now that I have a lovely new one things are much much nicer.
But, apparently my computer randomly killing applications is not over at all, and it's pissing me off.
The error is:
title: Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library)
program: the name/location of the program (ashwebsrv.exe and war3.exe are a couple I remember)
file: C:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\xtree
line: 273
expression: map/set iterators incompatible
see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts
Abort Retry Ignore. (Retry doesn't do anything)
After pressing Abort it says: Runtime error! R6030 -CRT not initialized
Any idea what this is or how to fix it?