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Windows 7 Constantly Freezes

I have a laptop with Windows 7 on it (64 bit) that CONSTANTLY freeze. It's been doing this since I got the computer.

For example, I'll be right in the middle of a word document, I'll save it, the entire computer freezes for about 30-60 seconds. I'll be on a web page and the entire computer freezes. Or a spreadsheet, or...

Bascially no matter what I'm doing, my computer freezes constantly; freezing several times in a hour. It freezes when I close stuff. It is extremely annoying.

It did it twice while typing this message. Once during a windows update, and another time when I tried to reboot the computer. I opened "Start", "Shut Down" the menu popped up and it froze before I could click "Restart".

What is the fix?

Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel(R) Core 2 Duo CPU T6600 @ 2.20GHz
4.00 RAM
64-Bit OS

supermandaddy

Start with a reinstall
If it is happening since you got the laptop, return it for an exchange. If there are problems out of the box, the likely reason is, it's a lemon.

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infotechelg

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Tsaico, I checked the event viewer (it froze as I was checking it) and a MSSQLSERVEREXPRESS warning popped up. I'm uninsalling all SQL Server 2005 instances from the machine. Hopefully, that's all it is.

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ded9

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tsaico

ded9's susggestion is also good. But I would start with either his method or mine first before uninstalling anything. You need to narrow down software or hardware issues.

infotechelg

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ded9/tsaico, ok will do. I already started uninstalling SQL, something which I rarely use anymore on the machine, so it's not a big issue to lose everything and reinstall if I have to. After I'm done with this, I'll try the clean boot process if this doesn't work.

infotechelg

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The uninstallations seemed to work, but time will tell. I gave credit to both solutions because I'm sure either would have worked just as well. I also gave 50 points to the third solution because if the software uninstall/clean reboot didn't work, the virus check would probably be the solution

Thanks for all your help!