I am using windows XP and after 1 hour my computer locks up for about 7 seconds then becomes unfrozen. About 1 minute later it happens again for the same amount of time. Once I restart the computer it stops locking up for about 30 minutes but then starts again later. What is it and what can I do to stop it?
2006-11-25 15:10:29 · 4 answers · asked by sheldrick m 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
It could be a million different things. Your drive might be going bad, you may be running really low on disc space, you could have some rogue software on your computer. I'd recommend opening the task manager (ctrl+alt+delete) and clicking the CPU tab. That will order all running programs/processes by what's using the most resources on your system. Wait until the computer locks up and see if there's one program that's eating up all your CPU cycles. If that doesn't show anything, come back and ask again with more information.
2006-11-25 15:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a free program called Advanced Windows Care, it checks the computer for registry error, etc, and automatically fixes them. What your computer problem is, I don't know, but maybe this program could help. Hey, for free, what do you got to loose.
2006-11-25 23:21:05 · answer #2 · answered by Clipper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows always has and probably always will lock up. I am a Windows user too. Microsoft needs to correct this problem.
2006-11-25 23:12:58 · answer #3 · answered by I know, I know!!!! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is extremely severe and probably a hardware problem because xp is theoretically impossible to freeze. something is seriously wrong. xp will cancel every process to keep windows explorer from freezing making it impossible to freeze. something majhor is wrong and i have no idea how youd fix it.
2006-11-25 23:13:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋