Computer keeps freezing...

Malwarebytes' anti-malware is a dedicated malware scan. probably the ones that MSE can't detect. so it's suggested for you to do it just to be sure that your PC is malware-free

Punkster said:

Malwarebytes' anti-malware is a dedicated malware scan. probably the ones that MSE can't detect. so it's suggested for you to do it just to be sure that your PC is malware-free

Same thing. No malware and still having the same problem.

Punkster said:

Have you tried a repair install?

Repair Install

SO I just did the repair install and I'm still having the same issues. Any other pointers?

Thanks.

IF the repair install can't solve it. the next step would be a clean install.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
Clean Install Windows 7

Since you have a Dell one with OEM Windows. you may have to activate your License by phone.

Activate Windows 7 by Phone

lot of people having trouble with sata/ahci drives on windows 7, 64 bit.

while this isn't a FIX of the problem, I found disabling ahci in bios reduces the freezes. things still freeze when you do something that requires higher privileges (pretty much anything in control panel)

I suspect AHCI reads and operations require system privileges at some level. this is my theory for the issues I had found on my gf's family's computer. the thing that sucks is that it worked fine for 2 months (since xmas) and then became virtually unusable for anything including web browsing.

see this thread:

Windows 7 randomly hangs

I did the Clean repair yesterday and everything seems to be back to normal and working fine.

Thanks everyone for you're help.