Applications not responding

Hello

Recently for the last week or so, i keep getting problems with my PC freezing up and not responding.

It happens for about 20 seconds, and usually only in the first hour or so of having turning my PC on. After the PC has been running for a while its perfectly fine.

I have NOD32, Anti MalwareBytes, Microsoft Security Essentials all run a scan and they found nothing. Spybot found nothing.

During these random freezes/not responding... the peak CPU/Memory is still less than 20%/20%. So i don't think its an application causing it.

What else can i do to dissect this problem and find the cause?

Well i'll disable one for a week and see if it improves.

Start whit NOD34...

flopholic said:

Start whit NOD34...

Yeh thats the one i turned off

Okay it still happening. I was browsing the internet and playing music on media player.

Suddenly the music stops, the browser hangs ctrl+alt+del didn't go through, until the PC decided to start responding again it lasts for about a minute and the PC had been on for about 20 minutes. Now that its happened it won't probably happen again it only ever happens once per day.

I need some way to monitor what is going on so i can see what this is being caused by, any suggestions on software that can log activity or something?

I would recommend completely uninstalling NOD32 rather than just disabling it.

If the hanging still occurs - try getting a couple of system monitoring widgets, like the ones seen here: A Tour of the Best Windows 7 Gadgets for System Monitoring

In particular get some that show you CPU usage and Hard Drive activity. These are probably the two most common bottlenecks (if it is a genuine bottleneck). When the freeze has stopped, go to the desktop and check the graphs' histories for the past minute. If everything looks normal then you know it's not a genuine (hardware) bottleneck, and must instead be caused by applications disagreeing.

MannyCalavera said:

I would recommend completely uninstalling NOD32 rather than just disabling it.

If the hanging still occurs - try getting a couple of system monitoring widgets, like the ones seen here: A Tour of the Best Windows 7 Gadgets for System Monitoring

In particular get some that show you CPU usage and Hard Drive activity. These are probably the two most common bottlenecks (if it is a genuine bottleneck). When the freeze has stopped, go to the desktop and check the graphs' histories for the past minute. If everything looks normal then you know it's not a genuine (hardware) bottleneck, and must instead be caused by applications disagreeing.

Well i doubt its a hardware issue, i have pretty much top end spec and the PC is less than a year old. Im mainly thinking its clutter that my OS is loading or something but msconfig shows only 4 start up apps.

But i will uninstall NOD 32 - seems no one thinks its very good any more :P

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Thanks !