Computer randomly freezing?

Question

Every minute to every couple of minutes any windows i'm using just freeze for 5-10 seconds (not the desktop, i can still use things on that). It also happens in games quite often and is really starting to annoy me.

I just ran an AVG virus scan and its still happening.

Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

it could be an impending hardware crash on your hard drive or a virus. Check your hard drives status and defrag it, try also disk checking for errors and start backing up your files. if you want more clues or details, right click my computer>manage and check the event viewer.