Windows 7 freezes ONLY when starting a program

lordx78 said:

Is this Host-Protection is for the Outpost Firewall software or it's a windows setting?

Hi. Host protection is a feature of the firewall. You can find it on the first page in the middle when you open Outpost Firewall or in the settings. I chose to turn it off, but I've seen some people have it on low setting. They claim it works for them. I turned it off completely just to be sure no more freezes would occur.

Thanks Venom Hawk. I'm a bit confused about that earlier.

By the way, I've just uninstall my AVG 9 Free Anti-virus and installed Microsoft Security Essentials. Guess what, my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 runs for flawlessly. No more unknown freezing. Apart from that, I've installed TuneUp Utilities 2010 to repair windows registry and changed the power plan to High Performance. That's all, all running fine now.

Anyway, not to be proud in this early stage. I'll keep my windows running till tomorrow morning to see the results. Keep posted!

Hi guys,

It has been 11 Hours and my Windows 7 still rocking.

lordx78 said:

Hi guys. I've read the posts here. I'm facing the similar problem like u guys here. I first encountered this issue of freezing when I upgraded my Windows 7 RC to full version somewhere in September this year. In this 3 months period, I've at least reformatted my Windows 7 partition for 15 times. Here is my specs,

AMD Phenom II x4 965 3.4GHz
ASUS Crosshair III Formula 790FX/750 chipset
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 2x2GB 1600MHz (OC)
ASUS EAH-5770 1GB 128bit GDDR5
Cooler Master Silent Pro 500W
WD 250 / Seagate 500GB

Venom Hawk said:

I haven't been able to reproduce the freezing since I turned off the host protection feature in Outpost Firewall after reading about it in this thread Vista x64 / 7 x64 freezes due to host protection - Outpost Users Support Forum. The computer has been on for more than a day without rebooting. It should have frozen at least a couple of times during that time. Host protection seems to be the culprit. And on top of that, the programs start up twice as fast now that it is off.

I'll be testing it for a couple days more to be 100% sure that it has been resolved. It would be such a relief hehe. I'll post here in a couple of days if everything goes well.

Is this Host-Protection is for the Outpost Firewall software or it's a windows setting?

Hi lordx78,
Welcome to the forum. hey please put your system info inside your profile system stats for later reasons ok incase you need help we can see it there if we need to be able to help you out ok. :)

and glad you also got it fixed up so far. it is still strange to me that that would be happening to you 2 as that shouldnt effect and be making it freeze really.

Never has on mine nor a lot of other so seems might be something conflicting somewhere maybe with a piece of software you guys might be using along with regular system stuff.

win7clutz said:

BSkiLLs said:

lordx78 said:

Hi guys. I've read the posts here. I'm facing the similar problem like u guys here. I first encountered this issue of freezing when I upgraded my Windows 7 RC to full version somewhere in September this year. In this 3 months period, I've at least reformatted my Windows 7 partition for 15 times. Here is my specs,

AMD Phenom II x4 965 3.4GHz
ASUS Crosshair III Formula 790FX/750 chipset
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 2x2GB 1600MHz (OC)
ASUS EAH-5770 1GB 128bit GDDR5
Cooler Master Silent Pro 500W
WD 250 / Seagate 500GB



Is this Host-Protection is for the Outpost Firewall software or it's a windows setting?

Hi lordx78,
Welcome to the forum. hey please put your system info inside your profile system stats for later reasons ok incase you need help we can see it there if we need to be able to help you out ok. :)

and glad you also got it fixed up so far. it is still strange to me that that would be happening to you 2 as that shouldnt effect and be making it freeze really.

Never has on mine nor a lot of other so seems might be something conflicting somewhere maybe with a piece of software you guys might be using along with regular system stuff.

Huh?????

I guess you figured out what i mean as you have it entered there now soo....

For everyone having a "freezing" problem, here is the solution:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_ [...] 97.13.html

Brand new drivers from Nvidia - there was a "fan problem" causing mother boards burn, and everything freeze.
Hope this helps!

I would start by running www.malwarebytes.com

My 4 year old laptop which worked perfectly till now started freezing on opening any application or program, be it chrome, My Computer, winrar, itunes etc. Windows hangs for 5-10 minutes and then the program would work fine after that , until closed and started again. I have to keep all programs running and hibernate my system instead of shut down.

Any idea???