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An update, it looks my problem is resolved. As per my earlier post, the problem was due to an app "Spyhunter". I wrote to them, and they responded back by asking me to switch off a feature of that app called "System Guard". After doing this problem did not reoccur. I am ofcourse writing to them to fix this issue, since by switching off of this feature, I am losing the functionality of blocking malicious processes from executing on my laptop.
I think we can consider this problem to be resolved. However, I am not marking this as resolved since there are other members struggling with the same problem and maybe this thread can continue and help others.
Once again a big thanks to all who helped me get my brain working and thinking....to arrive at the cause of the problem