I'm having trouble with my computer freezing up . My anti-virus nor spy-ware finds anything wrong. Any idea's

Answer 1

According to your description,there are some regsitry errors in your PC to cause "Computer freezing".You need to clean you PC.
Every time you install and uninstall hardware and software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the registry cause "Computer freezing".Unfortunately, over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your PC with registry cleaner.Good Regisry Cleaner can fix computer freezing prominently.It also can improve your PC and Internet performance dramatically up to 300%!
There are some comparison and review of TOP 5 registry cleaners.


http://www.registry-Cleaners.info

You can download and scan your PC for free.

Answer 2

It could be your windows registry is full of un-necessary garbage from previously installed / uninstalled programs.There's a program called regscrub that is free which you can use to repair / clean the windows registry.
Also, try going to your start menu, going to "run", type in "msconfig". Then change your start-up from "normal" to "selective".
You will see a tab on the right where a list of all the programs that start automatically with windows are listed. On windows xp you should be able to uncheck all of them.
Thirdly, clean up your temporary files ( programs / utilities / disc clean-up )
Fourth: defragment the drive ( go to my computer / rightclick hardrive / go to tools / defragment. This might take a long time to do.
Fifth, update spyware and antivirus ( try adaware and avg free...both are free and work well enough without slowing down system performance like macafee and norton / symantec. )

But the best solution I can give you is this: sell and / or give away your old pc, and buy a mac. It will never slow down, it doesn't need to be defragmented, there are no viruses or spyware that can effect it so you dont need any antivirus or spyware programs, There's no registry to clean up, and the hardware is well made and reliable. Plus, if you really have to, you can run windows on a mac at the same time as osx through bootcamp. ( bootcamp is free from apple....you just need a windows disk ) I went through windows hell long enough, and finally bought a mac. I stopped wasting hours and days with windows trying fight and solve problems, losing data, ect, bought a mac, and got my life back.

Answer 3

This can be a very hard problem to find. There are many problems which can cause this.

1. Corrupt registry.
2. Bad computer Memory
3. Over heating
4. Over Clocking the CPU
5. Motherboard going bad
6. Power supply going bad.
7. Other faulty hardware.
8. Computer Virus

way too many variables to find the problem. This system needs to be systematically dealt with.

Answer 4

You may just need to clean it up a bit. However re-scanning to make sure you are not infected is what I would do.


A clean computer is key to a faster computer. Run the 3 scans below.

Run a virus scan weekly.

Update and run your Anti-Virus program. Don't have one? You can run a free online scan from CA.
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virus...



Run Spybot and Adaware weekly.


Download, update and run Spybot---http://www.safer-networking.org/... . Don't forget to use the Immunize feature.

Download, update and run Adaware---http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaw...



Now to prevent spyware from being installed in the first place....




Download SpywareBlaster---http://majorgeeks.com/download2859.html

SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed.

It's main features include:
- Prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted pests.
- Block spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.
- Restrict the actions of potentially dangerous sites in Internet Explorer.






Now lets clean up your registry.


Run RegScrubXP weekly. Run Cleanup every time you log off.


Download RegScrubXP--http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?d...

Safely cleans junk out of the Windows 2000/XP system registry. All changes made to the registry are fully restorable to it's original condition. You can make an exclusion list of registry entries that RegScrubXP will not display as problems. You can sift through a list of file extensions, company names, run upon startup programs, Internet Explorer history, and uninstall programs to delete what you think is junk.

Download CleanUp---http://www.stevengould.org/software/clea...

Free disk space, make your computer run better/faster and protect your privacy - all in one easy solution. All for free!





Now lets clean up your disk.



Run a Disk Cleanup 2 times a month. Run Disk Defrag. monthly.


Do a Disk Cleanup and Disk Defrag. You can find both of them by following the path below.
Start>all programs>accessories>system tools>Disk Cleanup. Let it do its thing. You can check every box that has something to delete.
Now follow the same path and do a Disk Defrag. Again just let it do its thing.




Now lets tweak your connection.


If your speed is good I would not mess with it by trying to tweak it. If you do tweak once it is done you should not have to do it every again.


There are many programs out there to do this. I will give you 2 of them.
The first one is TCP Optimizer.

Description: The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.

http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php....

You can get support for the best way to set it up right from their forum http://forums.speedguide.net/

The second one is Cablenut.

Windows XP tested and approved

CableNut is a tool for optimizing your Internet Connection. We have provided a way to tweak any option you may want to in the adjuster. You can load "CableNut Custom Setting" files that are included with the program to tweak your Internet connection.

http://www.cablenut.com/

Again support is available right from their forum.http://www.broadbandnuts.com/index.php?p...




All programs are FREE!




After applying the suggestions above you will have a clean and faster computer. Enjoy.

Answer 5

try putting your computer in safe mode and rerun the anti-virus and spy- ware , to get into safe mode hit F5 or F8 depending on what OS you have

Answer 6

I agree with the suggestions offered by RLH
plus do a good physical cleaning of the computer.. open the computer case and with spray air, clean the computer especially the power supply and the the CPU.

Answer 7

your hard drive is corrupt get a new hard drive then before you do anything put all your security on first before surfing.

Answer 8

look at the things your running, if you dont have ram it might slow your computer down...

Answer 9

you might have to many firewalls try deleting some