squad_e Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Hey, i dont know wher to start really but Some aplications like msn and winamp, one's i use alot are just randomly freezing and forcing me to close them via the ALT CTR DEL way.. All it does it just make me send an error report I really don't know whats going on, i check my computer every week for malware etc... please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 Diskspace or RAM issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phlookian Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 It could still be malware, no spyware prog is 100 percent efficient If your pc works ok in safe mode but freezes under normal use you might try looking at all your running processes (in task manager) if there's any processes you don't recognise, try googling them and see what the process is and what it does even if its not malware, once you know what a process is you'll know whether its safe to turn off. by doing this you can strip the system down to basics (windows/ antivirus/ firewall etc) if this works out ok, you can find the problem by a process of elimination As Rocky said you may just be overloading the system, or something may be causing a memory leak or similar issue Just my 5 cents Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squad_e Posted March 29, 2009 Author Share Posted March 29, 2009 I use cccleaner for freeing up space i uninstalled a load of stuff i dont use anymore and managed to free 10GB on C:\ .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 I had a similar issue but it was during shut down of the machine, everything would freeze and the shutdown would take several minutes. I found it buy accident as I had to remove the USB cables from the back of the machine for some reason I don't remember but when I did that I found the shut down was back to normal. I experimented with all the usb plug and found the one port that when something was pluged in to it would cause the problem. It did not show up in the device manager as bad either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squad_e Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 Thanks for the replies, well after freeing up 10GB, it seems alright now.. All is good Gave it a good defrag etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Please don't tell me you had less than 3Gb of HD space left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squad_e Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 1.20GB to be infact lmao... how much is recomended then to keep free?.. is it to do with swap space?.. Or what ever you call it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Diskspace or RAM issues? So I was right on the money with my first guess! Mate, you should know better than that, in my experience, if you have XP installed you need to keep 4Gb of disk space free to keep things running smooth, any less and you will experience slow down.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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