slowing and frequent freezing

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Clear out the /temp and delete cookies and rerun disk defrag. Check to see how much harddisk space is available. If you have less than 10% of your drive available you will have to consider either making space on your drive or getting additional capacity. Hope this helps.

right click my computer , go properties and check in performance tab how was your system resource , try to start less program during start up by going to run msconfig

Probable causes are HD, Video card, or CPU fan.
Do a HD diagnostic test on the HD. All HD manufacturers have a diagostic utility program that you can download. The HD might have bad sectors that corrupted or damaged Windows files or programs.
If this is not the case, replace the video card (unless it is integraed to the Motherboard) and see if freezing stops.
Check CPU fan and see if turns fast enough to cool the CPU. You can check the CPU temperature by getting into the BIOS. If CPU gets hot, performace degrades (slow or freezing) and sometimes computer shuts itself off (and reboots too!).
Another possibility is virus. Scan for any virus/worm/Trojan.
Good luck.

I have a similar problem that I have not been able to diagnose, but one thing that you might try is to insure that you have the most recent drivers (for video, modem, etc.) for your system.

Also, did you install new software recently? If so, thatcould be tyhe cause.

Finally, you might try compacting your registry.

Sounds like something in your msconfig is trying to start up, or might have to much stuff period in your startup menu, less resourse's slower it gets. Check in your msconfig and clean that out, i've seen this problem enough with users to know that agood percentaage of time that's the problem.

If you can get access to internet from another PC, then go to a website like this: http://www.systems.wsu.edu/systems/download/f-prot.htm and download the .exe file onto a floppy. Then return to your machine and either boot into safe mode and transfer this file into a new directory and then run it OR if your pc hangs up even in safe mode, Then you will have to boot to DOS and run the program from there.
I have seen Norton miss plenty of malicious files that this DOS program of anitvirus will catch.
After you run the .exe file (which will simply install the program in the active directory) you will then need to run the runscan.bat file (if present) or just the f-prot.exe file to do a "dumb scan" of all file on the computer. HOpe this helps.

Try booting your computer in safe mode and looking in the divices box look at how many times windows finds your hardwere delet the ones that hve more then one and that should speed the system up i hade the same prob and this fixed it

Freezing could be caused by many things, a bad video driver, bad mouse. Go to device manager and delete some of the devices and when Windows restarts it should find the drivers. I would start with the display adapter. If that doesn't help try a different mouse, my system froze until I figured out the microsoft mouse was bad.

Have you installed any new software recently which may be causing the problem?
Do you have sufficient disk space (around 10%)?
If not, try converting the drive to FAT32 (if not already) and deleting temp files and unwanted programs. (Search for *.tmp, delete and then restart)

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