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Computer Randomly freezes
My Desktop System is a Dell XPS-420 which came with windows vista 32bit.
My wife's system is a a Dell Inspiron 1530 Laptop which came with windows vista 64bit
I installed Windows 7 64bit on both machines and then the problem sarted. The computers would lock up at random times and the only way to recover would be a hard reset.
I was searching the forums and came across a microsoft hotfix that was supposed to fix the random freezes. I installed the hotfix on both machines but the systems still froze(locked up) from time to time.
At my wife's request I reinstalled her original operating system which was windows vista. She has had no lock ups or freezes since.
I was not willing to go back to vista on my desktop machine as I like windows 7 very much. So to trouble shoot the problem I ran msconfig and disabled all the non-microsoft services and startup items and rebooted my machine. After about 4 hours of waiting the system froze at the logon screen after the screen saver was active for a short time. So now I am left with only microsoft services running on my machine and the system froze.
Then I used msconfig to disable all the microsoft services. No freeze after about 2 hours of surfing the web. So I have enabled half of the disabled microsoft services and here I sit waiting for my system to freeze again. How long should I wait to see if my system is going to freeze as this lock up/freeze situation only occurs at entirely random times. I haven't locked up/frozen yet and it's been about 2 hours.