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Does your computer freeze up without any cause? Useful methods on how to fix computer freezes
Dec 1st
Does your computer always freeze up without any cause while in the midst of doing something? Or does your mouse often freeze so you have to manually turn off your computer which is not safe for the computer or cause data loss?
Above are very common complaints for all computer users. If you have searched the Internet, you will find that these are due to a variety of things. Here some methods will be discussed on how to fix computer freezes.
Firstly, it will relate to the hardware on your computer. If there are defective or mismatched components existing on your computer, it will cause the random freezing-up of the computer. So you have to check your computer to see whether there are something conflict and then replace them correctly. Besides, it is necessary to note the settings of the Bios should be correct; and then the frequency of the CPU shouldn’t be too high; and the memory modules are correctly inserted into the sockets; and the displayer / power should be good heat-dissipation.
Secondly, it will have something to do with the software installed on the computer, which will take up lots of system resources. So it is highly recommended that you can uninstall the unwanted programs from Add / Remove Programs when noticing that they are no longer used. Also, if too many programs running automatically when booting up the computer, some will cause computer freezes. So please go to Start -> Run -> type “msconfig and press Enter -> go to Startup and disable some programs that do not need to automatically run at windows startup. Hence, it will stop your computer from freezing up time to time.
Thirdly, why does your computer freeze without any cause may cause from not enough system maintenance. As we all know that a computer is just like a human being who needs to well taken care of. Only in this way, will the computer or all of its components be used for a much longer time. If it lacks necessary system maintenance, it won’t run properly or freeze randomly without any cause, which will result in data loss, and lower working efficiency. So system maintenance is needed in order to fix computer freezes.
When talking about system maintenance, what lots of PC users think of will be how to remove some unneeded files from the computer and check / fix the PC errors. That is right for the unnecessary files will only take hard disk space without any meaningful significance. So a cleanup of them is a must by using the built-in Disk Cleanup in order to free up more available disk space. Moreover, it is necessary for you to use the Error-checking tool to check and then mark the bad sector on the hard. In this way, it will ensure a smooth running of your computer, without computer freezes.
But not all computer users realize that a simple disk defragmentation plays very important role in maintaining PC performance. First of all, as we all know that when there is not enough available free space to locate a same content into a single place, it will be cut into different parts and put in different corner of the hard disk. If this content is frequently input or output, it will increase the movement of the hard disk head to gather all parts together, which will slow down the computer. Seriously, it will eventually freezes up your computer. So a regular disk defragmentation is needed in order to maintain PC performance and fix computer freezes.
As what you can see above, there are many ways for you to fix computer freezes. But when trying to prevent the problem of “computer freeze up without any cause”, please do remember to run a disk defragmentation. It will do you a favor in maintaining PC performance.
Disk defragmentation — One effective thing you can do to fix computer freezes problem
Dec 1st
No matter what the computer is used for, it will be a huge nuisance to see that the computer freezes up or crashes when doing something in the midst. So is there any thing that we can do to fix computer freezes problem easily? Of course, there is, I believe.
For me, it is annoyed to see that my computer freezes up suddenly time and time again when starting it up or doing something for at this time it is impossible for me to access any program, or move my mouse to anywhere. What is serious, I have to manually turn off my power to close it down because the “Alt+Ctrl+Delete” is useless, which will cause the loss of some important information and unsafe elements to the computer. But that is what I can do.
After checking the Internet, I found that there were many things that I could do to fix computer freezes problem like checking some hardware settings, or removing some unwanted programs / files to release more available free space and memory, scanning the entire computer for viruses. I have done all without any remarkable result.
When talking this with one of my friends, I learned that the problem might be coming from the fragments on the hard disk. And disk fragments come inevitably as we download, store and delete files on the computer. The more fragmented the hard disk is, the more time it will consume to visit the hard disk. If we run too many programs at once, large number of system resources will be taken, which will greatly overload the movement of the hard disk and seriously slow down or freeze up the computer.
With the suggestion of my friend, I went to run a disk defragment and get surprising result: it fixed the computer freezes problem instantly. But to ensure a smooth disk defragmentation, it needs you to go thorough this article for some useful tips.
To ensure a thorough and faster disk defragmentation, you have to do the below sides before:
1) Completely clean up the garbage files on the hard disk. After being used for a long time, there must be lots of useless garbage files storing on the disk like download files, TEMP files, cache files and so on. So please go to run the packaged Disk Cleanup tool to remove some unnecessary files.
2) Check and then fix the hard disk errors. Please go to run the Microsoft “Error –checking” to check and then automatically fix some hard disk error.
3) Close all other running programs before the disk defragmentation. It is better to close other running program when running a disk defragmentation for once the Disk Defragmenter finds that there is something modified on the file, it will re-defragment the disk. So do not forget to turn off the screen savor and anti-virus programs before the defragmentation, and it is better to reset the size of virtual memory to a fixed value specified.
Basically, with the three preparations above, it will be much faster in defragmenting the hard disk. But for me, I am still unhappy with the lower-efficiency of the built-in Disk Defragmenter. Then I turned to use a disk defrag tool named Advanced Defrag, which finished the defragment process within only a coffee time. So I want to add that in order to get a faster defragmentation, it is better to rely on an advanced defrag utility.
As what you can see the explanation above, it is very necessary to run a disk defragmentation periodically in order to avoid and fix computer freezes problem. If you have never done one before, please remember to take action right now.