Computer Freezing

I suggest you check how much ram you have and if it's verry little don't do many things at same time. Also get trojan remover small program that checks for trojans and removes them(30 day free trial and it works). You could get avast antivirus it's free but i don't suggest that because antiviruses tend to use to much resources and you might end up worse than you are now. Also defragment your boot c. Hope i gave you some ideas.

hello cyrus, I hope that you are not using your four antivirus together : one is enough . But with four antivirus, we are sure that it's probably not a virus. You can try a fifth booting with a Linux LiveCD, but I think it's not necessary. There is not only one possibility : If you have add recently a new driver, remove it and see if the computer still freeze. Have you modify your CMOS setup ? Restore the previous parameters. A hardware problem is possible : have you checked your main hdd for some bad clusters ? Another possible cause is ram : test your ram by downloading a free utility. And it can also come from a defective component on your motherboard.

how the temperature there? it might have something to do with overheating.. or do you defrag your hdd regularly (run chkdsk as well)..

Good morning Kathy, U know i'm a geek when it comes to the computer but i'm just wondering if u have too many anti-virus programs installed. I installed a 2nd one one time & my computer did the same thing. I have a tech line i can call w/my provider & the first thing he did was uninstall the one i had put on there. Mine was doing the same thing. I'm not suggesting u take yours off just telling u what happened to me. HAPPY SAT. TO U.

First of all, get rid of the other anti-viruses, and install Avast free home anti-virus, and secondly get "yourfree registrycleaner.com" and clean out all the bad programs that you have on your system, it should get better after that. All absouloutly free, and not a trial.

I think you have many options to do in Computer Freezing. Why it freezing because you have a lot of unnecessary anti virus program that do not detect the real one. Or you have old hardisk that needs defragment, or need to reformat to erase unwanted virus and deep freeze the computer so that no virus will harm the computer.

Dearest kathy; Number one: Defrag while offline. Just set to defrag only, nothing else open and just leave it to defrag. Second is Never Install and Run more than one anti virus at a time. Same goes for software firewalls. It is likely that your problem is due to the multiple anti virus programs that you have installed. Never install more than one! Ever. Otherwise, the likelihood of there being conflicts is great. I know this sounds like a real pain but the best fix is to format your computer. Simply save all your important files onto a disk if possible, including your bookmarks, email address book as well as your installation files for ONE anti virus and a software firewall. There are some very good free programs available that will suffice. Since you have paid for your anti virus, choose one to re install and go with that one. Format your computer and reinstall your system and files. You will be good to go! Do this and you will find your computer back to the regular speed and operations, without any freezing problems. Be prepared to spend a day to do this. In the meantime, if you could state your operating system, processor speed, hard disk size and the amount of RAM that you have installed would be a benefit to those who are trying to advise you. Good Luck.

not sure running more than one program at a time hurts but I have been told that running more than one antivirus isnt good they conflict with each other so they dont know if the other one is something like a virus or not so I would say get down to only one anti virus program!

The first thing I always ask when people have this issue is whether they have been keeping up with disk defragmentation. Some people never clean their drives and that can slow the computer down and start causing stoppage. If your disk is not fragmented, then the next one is have you configured your anti virus programs correctly? They only do what you tell them to ;-) When you tell them to do a complete virus scan are you getting clean results? Maybe the different virus programs are conflicting with each other. I've never used more than one at a time. Good luck!

First off, thanks for posting this question. I've been having the same problems, and I am really no computer pro (at all!). But reading all of these responses and reminders got me to finally remember about defragmenting, which I haven't done for so long. It is on right now, though it took me a thorough search to figure out how to do it. Thanks again, and to all the responding people. :o)

Hi cyrus! I have had myy computer freeze up before and I read that more than one virus program can actually overwelm a computer a little. Mostly when they are all trying to update automatically. If there is a lot of programs..not just virus protection...it can cause your computer to be slow or freeze. I would set my virus protection to update when I give it the go ahead..that way it's not all updating at once. There is also a very good free program called bitdefender that checks your computer online. My b/f uses it on my desk top and it runs great for him. He also uses spybot to take care of the spyware thing. It's free too. Take care and good luck.

I would try to defrag it.... Sometimes when you have one or more virus protection programs it cancels out some of the effects of the one that could be great for you.... I would suggest to only use no more than two virus protection programs..... If you have alot of documents in folders delete the ones not needed any more...

that is the reason your computer is freezing, 4 anti virus s/w installed will keep fighting against each other causing all kinds of problems, now removing everything completely will not help as most of it wont get uninstalled. I suggest you back up your data and do a clean format and install, after that install only one anti virus s/w. I would suggest you go with Avast anti virus as it is free and also very good.

One, you probably have conflicting software on your computer. If one antivirus software did not work, it needs to be completely uninstalled before installing a different version. Two, the software you are installing on your computer may not be compatible with the computer. Many antivirus software packages are not compatible with certain types of computers, or even Windows 7. Three, you may have too much software already installed on your computer, causing it to slow down and freeze up. When you start to clog the memory (like a sink pipe with a lot of food and grease), it runs out of space. You may want to try to uninstall many of the software programs you have already installed, clean out your cookie and internet cache, and run system checks on your computer. Then reinstall ONE antivirus software, let it update, and run the scan again.

I am enjoying reading all the responses here, many of them are quite helpful. I would just keep one anti virus, and run some cleaning programs and defrag. In fact this is reminding me that I need to defrag, as well.

Definitely the options given by the previous guys are right.One antivirus software is just right for the system.That is the main reason the computer might be freezing up.Try uninstalling them and then install the program you have paid for. Check for the memory.Increasing it will definitely have a great impact on the speed. Do a disk defrag and cleanup once in a while.Remove any unused software off the computer.Hope this would help. In case you are still having issues it might be an issue of a serious virus on the computer.Format you hard drive and then try working on it again.

The best solution when this happens is to install a program called "Tune Up Utilities" (better the 2010 version). You can find it either on Katz dot cd or as torrent, on thepiratebay.

There can be a number of reasons why your computer would freeze. Many people don't do things on a regular basis that would prevent this and I don't know if this is you but this is what I do! Every week I make sure that I use the system utility tools like Disk Cleanup as this gets rid of the temporary files and browsing history, this all takes up space. Also, there might be programs that you no longer need or use and you should check your programs list out and delete any unnecessary programs. There's a good free tool that I use called Ccleaner and this scans your registry and removes invalid entries. Over time your registry can grow as a result of installed programs and software in the past and this will slow your computer down if not cleaned on a regular basis. I must emphasise the point though, it's not a good idea to go into the registry and start messing around unless you know what you are doing as this can really cause problems for your computer. However, ccleaner is perfectly safe and does a good job. I scan my registry using this after every Internet session and this keeps things running smoothly. Here's the link for that www.ccleaner.com There could also be lots of programs starting up when you first turn your computer on and you may not need some of these either so you should remove them from your start up list. Again, there's another good free program that I use that monitors the start up programs list and it's called WinPatrol www.winpatrol.com This is known as Scotty the dog and he sits in your service tray on the bottom right hand side of screen and monitors your start up list. If any program trys to access this list then Scotty informs you and you can block it. My computer never freezes now and I guess everything I do on a regular basis helps to prevent this. I use Norton 360 as my antivirus software and I'm pretty pleased with it. I only have the one antivirus product but this is all I need, it does absolutely everything. You say you have four antivirus products and I'm wondering if there might be some conflict there as well. Some antivirus products don't work when you have others on your system as well. Anyway, if your computer freezes here's something else you can do and that is press the Control key, Alt and Delete together and this will bring up the Task Manager dialogue box. From here you can end the program that is running and hopefully get you out of the freeze. Anyway, good luck. Andrew

Get rid of three of the programs. They are fighting each other! Each of them thinks the other is a virus!

four anti-virtus,are you crazy? it is not better for computer like that ,just need one . if you want to have a healthy pc,just to upgrade the antivirtus and patch your system and upgrade the software in your system.. of course , you should learn some knowlege about the virtus...