Windows 7 freezes

another syntop is it messes with my keyboard, it types extra letters i do not press and sometimes holds oone of them down

i can't take much more of this please work with me

thanks

skipping the system details, what I've read I don't think thats the problem. When I first looked for a solution to my freezing problem everyone simply states the obvious. What else is happening? In my case there was still activity on the screen, I could move the mouse pointer around but I could not click on anything, opening task manager showed that the CPU's spiked to 25% then dropped to 2%, closed TM and the problem went away for awhile. Had the problem right out of the box with this laptop. If this sounds like your problem too then you might look at the mouse/drivers. I bought a new wireless mouse 2 weeks ago for the micro reciever, my old wireless was 4 years old. I've been trouble free since. Hope this helps somebody.

when mine locks up i cant do anything. cant move the mouse and the keyboard loses all function

also internet explorer and firefox when i had it installed would continuallay crash but when this happens i still can re open it and have function

typically i will be using web browser when the entire system locks up and i can not do anything

Please see the sticky thread in the bsod section for how to post the crash dumps.
Then make a new thread with the info.

I'll take a look and show you what to do to fix it.

Sorry if this has been suggested before, but this is a long thread and I didn't read the whole thing. I was getting freezes, and I think they've gone away now. The cause seems to be the sleep times for the computer and the hard drives were different. I had changed the computer sleep time to 60 minutes. However, the hard drive sleep time is somewhere else and I didn't see it at first. It was set to 20 minutes. So the hard drives would shut down, then later the computer would . I think this was causing the problem. I figured this out, changed the HD sleep to 61 minutes. Now there are no freezes and it even responds better coming awake after shut-downs. This may not fix everyone's problem, but it's something to check.

At last! A forum in which people are describing exactly my problem very precisely. (Yet there's no apparent solution after 48 pages of exchanges!!)

After several months of enjoying smooth, fast operation with Windows 7, I started getting the temporary freeze-ups. I can move the cursor freely but nothing I click on responds, and it takes up to one or two minutes before normal activity is restored. What I have to offer here (I confess I don't have the time to read all 48 pages, but 1, 2, 46-48 give a pretty good gist) is some evidence that the problem is unlikely to be related to hardware.

A couple of months after my freezes started I decided to upgrade my machine so I can run Adobe CS5 software at its best. I changed the CPU to an intel dual-core, the motherboard (to an Asrock P43ME) and the GPU (to Nvidia Quadro FX3800). I reinstalled Windows 7 and ensured I had all up-to-date drivers. Even with all that new hardware exactly the same freezing problem returned. It seems to me the scientific conclusion has to lie somewhere with the way Windows 7 behaves.

I found a Microsoft hotfix for Windows 7 freezes (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2265716) but (a) the symptom described at this URL seems to be a complete freeze and (b) I tried to run the hotfix but got an error message so abandoned this approach. I have minimized my configuartion, defragmented my hard drives, bought and run RegCure, all without success.

Candidly, I think there is a serious and fundamental problem with Windows 7. If you look at the massive number of hits when you Google 'Windows 7 freezes' or 'Windows 7 slow' it's obvious there is a huge constituency of people who are experiencing these problems without any clear solution. The freezing is frustrating, time-wasting and — at root — unacceptable in something that is sold for use by non-savvy computer owners. If somewhere in these 48 forum pages there is a solution that truly works, is it possible to create a master link to the solution?

Your hard drive is probably messed up. Or you have AVG. (Same difference, lol.)

Hundreds of millions of pcs have Windows 7. Of course there are going to be users with problems. None are them are from the OS itself.

You're the first person I've ever heard declare a Windows OS to be perfect. But on reflection, I realize you're right. If the systems sold by Microsoft ever had flaws they'd have to come out with things updates and service packs, and neither has ever been needed (lol).

Win 7 sales are around 90 million; they don't yet top one 100 million, never mind 100s of millions.

My hard drives have been scanned and checked by Windows disk checker and by third-party software. I run (paid for) Avira Antivirus.

Yep, some users will have problems. To imply that they're the customer's fault is neither helpful nor necessarily accurate. If you bought a car and it kept stalling, how would you react if someone told you "your clutch is probably messed up"?

There are several items I have read or experienced that can drastically effect the speed/performance of Windows 7 and I will list them as items to consider.

Your anti-virus software. An active anti-virus software is a necessary evil that is often just quite evil. The truth is, to detect anti-viruses the anti-virus program has to behave like one - it tries to force itself into every operation you do before anything else is allowed to run, this includes your boot-up, the services, harddrive and flashdrive accesses, and browser calls. Try removing your anti-virus software and see if your problem persists; I would say over the months I have been on this forum this is the #1 cause of numerous problems from slow-downs to BSODs. If this eliminates your problem then this forum recommends using Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) as your frontline active defense.

The size of your hosts file. I found this to be a huge problem for me but if you are unfamiliar with the hosts file then it likely is not the cause of your problem. Essentially the hosts file is a hard-coded look-up table for DNS addresses which is checked prior to passing the url to your dns server. My hosts file has over 10,000 entries, designed to redirect calls to known advertising sites and malware back to my computer instead, and although I consider it extremely useful, it would cause my computer to come to a crawl about every 15 minutes when the windows dns svchost would update. You can detect this issue by using process explorer and seeing one svchost hit your CPU at 50% or better every 15 minutes or so and if you right-click the svchost and select properties you will see it includes the DNS service. The solution that worked for me was a freeware utility HostsMan, which was recommended by member etelmar and now I recommend as well. It removed duplicates, sorted and organized the file and I no longer have the slow-down.

Hardware problems. The third issue I experienced was that my usb trackball would stop tracking and I blamed it on system lag but could not see any process utilizing CPU with process explorer. I even tried buying and using a usb to PS/2 adapter but the problem persisted. By chance I was messing with my system sounds and I set a sound to device connect and disconnect and I started hearing the sounds repeatedly while using my trackball. It turned out there was a short in my trackball cable and it was loosing connection. I cut about 6 inches off my wire and re-soldered it and my issue was solved. Not a software problem at all, just my can't-live-without-it 15 year old trackball.

The point is, your issue may sound the same but be caused by many different things and so you basically need to try everything one by one and knock out the possibilities until you find one that works for you. And when you do find a solution, if it isn't listed here already then please add it to the list for others to try.

With all due respect, I've analyzed 10s of thousands of crash dumps (amongst every type of help request you could ever imagine) of Windows 7. I've yet to ever see a fault with the OS and I know its internals and inner-workings to a very high degree.

The OS does not cause freezes or crashes. (Neither does MSE, the only antivirus that will never do so under any circumstances.) Drivers or faulty hardware do. Please take that advice because if you think it's the OS, you'll be stuck with the problem for a very long time. Just trying to help ya out man.

Windows 7 was the most widely used beta of any MS software ever, worldwide. Possibly most of any software, ever. It's testing platform was enormous and all bugs of that nature have long been gone before even beta 7000 was made public.