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This is starting to get annoying. I don't know how long it's been happening, but it's only a few weeks ago I realised it always happened on a Friday. That narrows it down a bit I guess.
Sometimg in the late afternoon or evening (I don't think it's the exact same time every week) my computer basically freezes up. I get booted off MSN, mouse responses become virtually zero, and keyboard responses incredibly laggy (up to a minute in lag). I end up having to hit the reset button, because if I try to reboot not only will it take me five minutes to get to and select 'shut down', but it takes a further 15 to do all the 'end program' boxes because nothing is responding.
So.... what the hell is causing this? Or more to the point, how the hell do I track it down and eliminate it without formatting and resinstalling everything?
I can't think of any obvious software I've got running. I've done virus checks (using AVG) and spyware checks (with Ad-Aware)and nothing comes up there either. Is there perhaps some kind of conflict with something else?
I guess it's possible I've got something checking for weekly updates and it's not compatible for some reason. Again though, how can I possibly narrow it down without checking everything?
Any ideas?
Sometimg in the late afternoon or evening (I don't think it's the exact same time every week) my computer basically freezes up. I get booted off MSN, mouse responses become virtually zero, and keyboard responses incredibly laggy (up to a minute in lag). I end up having to hit the reset button, because if I try to reboot not only will it take me five minutes to get to and select 'shut down', but it takes a further 15 to do all the 'end program' boxes because nothing is responding.
So.... what the hell is causing this? Or more to the point, how the hell do I track it down and eliminate it without formatting and resinstalling everything?
I can't think of any obvious software I've got running. I've done virus checks (using AVG) and spyware checks (with Ad-Aware)and nothing comes up there either. Is there perhaps some kind of conflict with something else?
I guess it's possible I've got something checking for weekly updates and it's not compatible for some reason. Again though, how can I possibly narrow it down without checking everything?
Any ideas?
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This is starting to get annoying. I don't know how long it's been happening, but it's only a few weeks ago I realised it always happened on a Friday. That narrows it down a bit I guess.
Sometimg in the late afternoon or evening (I don't think it's the exact same time every week) my computer basically freezes up. I get booted off MSN, mouse responses become virtually zero, and keyboard responses incredibly laggy (up to a minute in lag). I end up having to hit the reset button, because if I try to reboot not only will it take me five minutes to get to and select 'shut down', but it takes a further 15 to do all the 'end program' boxes because nothing is responding.
So.... what the hell is causing this? Or more to the point, how the hell do I track it down and eliminate it without formatting and resinstalling everything?
I can't think of any obvious software I've got running. I've done virus checks (using AVG) and spyware checks (with Ad-Aware)and nothing comes up there either. Is there perhaps some kind of conflict with something else?
I guess it's possible I've got something checking for weekly updates and it's not compatible for some reason. Again though, how can I possibly narrow it down without checking everything?
Any ideas?
Sometimg in the late afternoon or evening (I don't think it's the exact same time every week) my computer basically freezes up. I get booted off MSN, mouse responses become virtually zero, and keyboard responses incredibly laggy (up to a minute in lag). I end up having to hit the reset button, because if I try to reboot not only will it take me five minutes to get to and select 'shut down', but it takes a further 15 to do all the 'end program' boxes because nothing is responding.
So.... what the hell is causing this? Or more to the point, how the hell do I track it down and eliminate it without formatting and resinstalling everything?
I can't think of any obvious software I've got running. I've done virus checks (using AVG) and spyware checks (with Ad-Aware)and nothing comes up there either. Is there perhaps some kind of conflict with something else?
I guess it's possible I've got something checking for weekly updates and it's not compatible for some reason. Again though, how can I possibly narrow it down without checking everything?
Any ideas?
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