Re: Computer Freezing

Good luck to you.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Kathie Thomas wrote:
Thanks - I believe it is software related. I ended up doing a System Restore back to the beginning of the month and it's now not hanging up so I'll have to watch which software updates show up over the next few days to see if I can find out the culprit - I don't believe it's virus or spyware related.

Kathie


"Ted Zieglar" <teddy.z@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e$lXVa2BHHA.3496@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
1. Look for clues in Event Viewer.
2. Spyware and viruses are always a suspect.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Kathie Thomas wrote:
Over the past week my computer has begun freezing if left unattended for a couple of hours. It seems to go into shutdown mode - the computer is on, but the screen black and moving the mouse does not wake anything up.

I am running WindowsXP SP2 and receive all the automatic updates. It's an HP Pavilion a1240a with 512MB SDRAM and Intel Pent 4.

The power settings are set to 'Never' and all was ok until several days ago when it started doing this. I have not installed any new software prior to this happening - the only thing I can think of is if any updates on any of the software I'm using (MS Office 2003, TrendMicro Antivirus for example) might be causing something to happen.

The computer is fine whilst I'm using it - it's just if I go away to a meeting or something and return that I find it's stopped operating.

Does anyone have any ideas please?

Kathie


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