Computer Freezes
Any computer user knows how frustrating it is when a PC stops running in the middle of a complex application. If your laptop keeps freezing when you’re in class or in the field doing research, there’s not much you can do to salvage your notes. Computers sometimes freeze, but if a computer freezes on startup regularly, or if it freezes when multi-tasking, there’s probably something wrong. A computer could suffer permanent damage when it stops running abruptly.
In the past, a user would have to pack up the computer and take it in for a diagnostic checkup. Two hours later and $80 lighter, you may or may not have a working machine. Computerfreezes.net has changed all that. Rather than running all over town with a frozen computer, run to our website for help. We can quickly diagnose the reason your computer freezes and take care of the problem with our recommended software. Our fixes will work for laptops, notebooks or desktop computers in a matter of minutes, not miles.
Top Five Reasons Your Computer Freezes
There are five main reasons your computer could bind up and stop running.
- Windows Registry is corrupted.
- The drivers are corrupt or outdated.
- Computer is infected with a virus or malware.
- Hard drive or file system errors.
- Computer is in a bad location.
Any one of these issues or a combination of them could be the reason a laptop keeps freezing. They can cause computers to freeze on startup or anytime. They can make it run like last year’s model. Luckily, Computerfreezes.net has a solution for all these problems.
- The Windows registry could become corrupted by a virus, Trojan horse or malware. Any of these nasty programs can be downloaded without realizing it. They can cause havoc on a machine, including freezes. The registry can also become corrupt if the computer gets hung up and crashes. In some cases, software may have been sending a message to the registry that became garbled and was recorded improperly. That bad command will remain in your registry until you clean it with a good registry cleaner.
- If a computers drivers are out-dated or corrupt, it can have internal conflicts that will cause errors and crashes. For instance, the soundcard may not react well to a new audio recording program. They might fight over control of the computer’s resources, especially when monitoring recording or during playback. Old drivers might not be forward-compatible with new versions of Windows, Java, Adobe or Flash. Driver software such as Driver Scanner by Uniblue can check and analyze the computer drivers to make certain they’re compatible with each other.
- If a computer is infected with a virus or malware, you could be in for a real heartbreak. Viruses can record your keystrokes and report the data to a remote user so they can steal your private data. A virus can also change the autoexec.bat file and prevent your system from launching. Sometimes they erase data from the hard drive by writing and rewriting gibberish until your machine has no hard drive space left to use for virtual memory. Some forms of malware will use a computer to send out infected e-mail messages to everybody in a list of contacts. Your friends will not be pleased to receive an e-mail from you with a virus attached to it. The only way to make sure you don’t get clobbered by any sort of malware or virus is to use a great antivirus software program, such as XoftSpy.
- If a computer freezes on startup, or anytime for that matter, the hard drive could become damaged. When those abrupt stops happen while the machine is writing to the hard drive, sectors can be permanently damaged. Bad sectors can result in two things–neither of which is good. They can cause a permanent loss of data, or they can make your software crash. Diskeeper 2011
is a program can analyze your hard drive and record where any bad sectors are hiding. Then your computer will refrain from writing data to those sectors.
- A computer might be freezing because it’s located in a bad place. Computers need a dry, cool home. Make sure all the fans are open and spinning. Have the dust blown out every few months to keep it from overheating. Don’t sit the computer in direct sunlight or leave your laptop in a hot car. If your computer seems to run hot, have another fan installed in it. They’re cheap and can really make a difference.
Whatever the reason, if your computer is freezing regularly, you need to address the problem. Computerfreezes.net is standing by to help any way we can. Our software recommendations and tips will quickly ferret out the problem and restore your system to its glory days. It will run faster, handle your software more efficiently and will stop the freezing.

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Hello again, before we go any further, is there a way to save all of the memory from my hard drive to maybe… somewhere else? Because i have been having there kind of problems for a while now and i can’t risk losing my data now… Thanks !
CFreeze thanks for the previous help and one more thing for you to answer, can i run disk check on a anti-virus program ? Also, I waited for a while for the original disk check to run ( the one that i mentioned yesterday ), and it went straight to the computer icon and to the welcome sign ( normal start up routine ) at 9 percent… Please help! And thanks in advance !
I mean right after 9 percent it went straight to the icon and etc…
Hey, I have a problem for you to fix CFreeze! My pc keeps freezing when I start my pc and wait for around 3-5 minutes. Before i start it, there is a disk check but i skip it because sometimes it will stick at 9 percent. Please tell me what to do, thanks
Aston: Your computer wants to do a check disk for a reason. I recommend that you run the check disk when you computer starts. It may take a good while (hours) for it to complete. If it still does not complete after waiting this long, then it sounds like the hard drive might be bad.
Hi there my computer is a Acer Predator G7200 Defender Phenom Quad Core 9750 Liquid Cooled Desktop PC and over a long while it would have an occasional freeze normally after a few minutes of logging in this would result on having to force its turn off it would normally work fine for the day after that it may need 1 or 2 force turn offs only today however it is taking multiple turn offs and still not working it is also getting the blue screen of death aswell please help with this
Ben: This is very hard to pin down as it could be any number of things causing this. Here are two suggestions:
1. Run Malwarebytes – Check out my detailed post on how to download, install and run it. Malwarebytes
2. Try disabling all startup items by using the MSCONFIG utility and see if that stops the freezing. If it does, then there is a program that is running in the background causing the freezes.
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I just brought a new computer but when I try to use it it ither freezes or goes to this blue screen
If I restore it to its factory condition would that maybe fix it. Thanks
If it’s a brand new computer, I would check the warranty on it and maybe see if you can get some help from either whoever sold it to you or the manufacturer. Otherwise, a system restore would be a good option if you don’t have a lot of personal data on the machine already.
i cleaned it can it be a problem with adobe??? for flash???
Hi,
My problem is similar to the casper case, but i dint even multitask in the first place.whenever i play online game example like warcraft 3, counterstrike online or when i watching youtube video, it will sometimes freeze.90% chance of it will freeze.I tried to change to a new hard disk with the same xp 32bit os , but still having the problem.Im using Nvidia Geforce 210 graphic card and 2gb of ram.sorry for my bad english but i hope someone can help me regarding this matter!
Regards,
ZhiHern
From the information given, I would probably lean towards your computer’s graphics card and only having 2GB of memory. You need a minimum of 4GB…if you want to get any kind of performance out of XP.
My computer freezes right after the Dell sign, when it goes to the Windows screen, which it says Windows. The top part of the monitor looks really weird, with pixels being different colors than black. I’ve tried a system restore, and it did nothing. I don’t know what to do. My computer is a Windows 7. Any help here?
I would try 2 things.
1. When you turn your computer on, look for the button to enter into the Boot Options….I think for Dell it is F12. From the boot options menu, I would run the Dell Diagnostics. This will check all hardware and make sure it is good.
2. In Windows 7, there is an option to ‘Repair Startup’. You get to this option by Booting off of the Windows 7 CD that came with your computer. I would try that next.
It still didn’t work.
I’ve noticed that when I try to start it in Safe mode, it loads this one driver and freezes right after it. Could that be the problem?
Repair startup can’t seem to find what is wrong.
help me !! my pc freezes in 45-50 min when i connect to internet it freezes when that 45 min pases i am using internet in flash
help me i rushed my system 2 times and nothing
i am thinking that the problem is in the flash and when i download it passes only 20-30 min and pc freezes
This very well could be an issue with Flash, but I am thinking it is more of an overheating problem. Does this only happen when your watching or streaming movies on the internet? If so, I would bet good money that your computer is overheating. Make sure all of it’s fans are running properly and that all vents are clear of dust.
………..well i can try that but this is my second internet on flash memory
Hello,
Our pc freezes, whenever we connect the net cable. It freezes completely, the image and mouse stand still, and we must turn off the pc by holding the power button. Its a XP, we have already deleted the antivirus, and the same cable works fine in a diferent pc. Could you please help us out?thanks!
This sounds directly like it is a problem with the Network Card in your computer. The first thing you could do is try to make sure the network card has the most recent drivers from the manufacturer. If it does, then the network card may just be bad. In that case, I would buy a new network card. You can find them at a very reasonable price.
help! my pc keeps freezing when i multitask and cant last more than 10 minuts in any game iv tryed so far, no matter if its a crappy old game thats not recvire a lot of resorces. i have tryed to replace everything in the computer and fully updateed the software, exept the harddrive. i have installed new cooling fans also, the harddrive was very hot before i did that, but the computer just freezes without warning, and gives no failure messege of any kind what so ever when i reboot windows, so even windows cant give me any feedback why it is letting me down. i have even tryed to upgrade to windows 7, but the problem seems to be unchangeed, but tho windows last longer stil when i install the right updates, but nothing yet have stoped the freezing problem or make games run more than 10 minuts, sorry for my english, i am from denmark, i hope someone can help me, thankyou, casper
Casper: I know this might seem like a short answer, but it almost sounds like a lack of RAM in your computer. Multitasking depends heavily on how much memory you computer has.