My Computer Freezes Up Too Much! Help!?

Question

My computer freezes up, too much. It freezes like every 10 seconds. It's ridiculous. I rebooted it a few days ago because I thought that might help. It didn't really. I have a Toshiba Laptop with Windows XP. Sometimes programs will just close by itself because of how bad the freeze is. My brother's laptop is much older then my Toshiba yet it works fine! Please help me!

NOTE: I don't know lots about computers so............

Answer 1

I tell everybody I know to Clean Disk and Disk Defrag at least once a week. And every time you download a program or something. If you have not done this in a while that could be your problem. If not you might have some software conflicting somewhere. You might want to reboot more often too. This helps keep things clean.

Answer 2

maybe your computer is filled with junk and you need to clean it out go to this website that im working on and see the videos there they will probably help you make your computer not freeze and make it faster the website is http://www.superfoos.blogspot.com/ please leave comments or suggestions and it will be very helpful to rate it and i almost forgot the links to get the software that i announce on the video are at the bottom of the page i hope this helps you out

Answer 3

First trying cleaninng out ure computer...delete all the stuff you dont need in you recycle bin, ure history,address bar,etc..THen download CCleaner to your computer..just go to ccleaner.com or google it.

If that doesn't work you'll have to get rid of your Windows and install a new one.

I hope this helped..=]

Answer 4

Smack it till it works. Done.  

Answer 5

Xp has very cool features, however it demands lot of memory from your PC...try disabling some features to use less memory...like using the classic desktop instead of the colorful one...you can do that on pc settings and task bar menu...

Also go to the settings and hit on System...there go to the advance tab and click on performance settings, there uncheck all option you think won't affect your computer and that will help faster up a little...

Change internet explorer for firefox and you'll see.

Learn how to make your pc run faster, clean old files and make it work better, I’ll share with you this articles I wrote that would help you and also give it some maintenance. If it worked for you, please vote. Have a nice day!

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To speed up your computer and free up space and memory for free:

Go to the Start Menu> Run

Type in "appwiz.cpl"

Uninstall whatever you don't need.

Next, go to Start> Run and type in "msconfig".

Go to the Startup Tab and uncheck everything you don't want to startup. If you want, you can uncheck everything, and your anti-virus will still restart itself when you log on.

Now go to My Computer> Hard Drive> Documents and Settings> [USER NAME]> Local Settings> and delete everything inside the Temp Folder. (This is a hidden folder so you will need to have "show hidden files and folders" checked in Folder Options) All the files in this folder are just temporary files that your Internet stored that for certain websites.

Then go to My Computer> Hard Drive> Windows> Prefetch and delete everything inside it. This folder is like an cache for programs and should be emptied about once a month.

Next, you should install CCleaner, it will get rid of a lot of temporary files on your computer. It also has a registry repair system, which is easily the best free one available on the Internet:

http://www.ccleaner.com/download

Another option is to try defragmenting your computer.

Go to the Start Menu and go to All Programs

Go to Accessories and System Tools.

Choose Disk Defragmenter and when it loads click defragment.

Next, go to Device Manger (Start> Right Click My Computer> Properties> Hardware Tab> Device Manager) and update all drivers.

Another thing I would say is to compress your files if you already haven't.

Open My Computer and right click on your hard drive

Check the Compress Drive button and let it do its thing.

Finally, make sure your Hard Drive doesn't have any bad sectors. Go to My Computer> Right Click Hard Drive> Properties> Tools Tab> Check Now> Check both boxes and Start. It will ask you to reboot, so reboot. This will clear out any bad sectors on your Hard Drive.

These are short-term solutions however. The easiest way is to just upgrade the RAM on your system, but at least the ways above are free.

Answer 6

1: are you sure that your anti-virus is good? AVG and AVAST are good anti-virus programs, if avg and avast is not your anti virus then download one of them and scan again because some anti-virus are not good in removing virus

2: try to delete files that are not needed in your laptop and if there is a game that you don't play anymore uninstalll it

if it doesn't work then backup your files and reformat