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Win 7 64: Random Freezes when Multitasking
Hey!! Long time follower of this forum, it's been a great resource. I've been checking for the last month or so to see if anyone has had a similar problem to me with no luck so I finally decided to post.
I've been using Win 7 since RC and am currently using retail home premium. This problem has been plaguing me since RC and I even went back to Vista for a while. Now on to my issue.
Problem: My system randomly freezes for 10-45 seconds while multitasking. For example if I'm installing a game and watching a movie, or extracting something and browsing the web. There are frequent offenders (itunes, winrar, firefox, VLC) but the entire computer becomes unresponsive including explorer, no ctrl alt del, nothing. It also never happens while I'm in a game. The computer ALWAYS comes back though, it never "crashes" it just hangs for long chunks of time.
I've memtested the ram, updated every driver on the planet, defragged, reinstalled, cried.
What do I need to provide, Any advice would be greatly appreciated.