windows 7 hangs...unresponsive for hours

Hello,
About a week ago, the OS on my Dell Inspiron 1545 began to hang on a daily basis, becoming unresponsive for hours. I have resorted to shutting the power off manually. As I am a novice user with limited expertise, I was wondering if anyone can help.

I have attached snips from the events I think caused the hang from the event logger. If there is additional information you need, I will be more than happy to supply it. It's becoming a big inconvenience.

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filskyz said:

Hello,
About a week ago, the OS on my Dell Inspiron 1545 began to hang on a daily basis, becoming unresponsive for hours. I have resorted to shutting the power off manually. As I am a novice user with limited expertise, I was wondering if anyone can help.

I have attached snips from the events I think caused the hang from the event logger. If there is additional information you need, I will be more than happy to supply it. It's becoming a big inconvenience.


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Hi and welcome

I believe it is DEP. goto control panel>system control panel>advanced settings>performance>DEP. what is it set to? is it grayed out?
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Ken J+

I'm not sure what you mean by "grayed out". The first option is checked. Attachment 41421

There are some very recent driver updates for your Dell inspiron 1545 that may help with your problem.
Drivers & Downloads=

chev65 said:

There are some very recent driver updates for your Dell inspiron 1545 that may help with your problem.
Drivers & Downloads=

I have installed recent drivers that is applicable to my system. Still, the problem persists

No one has any more on this?

Nope, no one has been able to help me here

I eventually got something called processexplorer. its essentially a task manager type program but gives more detailed information. The problem is still there, but using this program i am able to manage it a bit better

For ours, turns out we had a bad HDD from DELL. Sucks, but they sent us a new one and everything works fine now.