No crash, everything just freezes for about a minute, then resumes?

Hard to say, slow hard drive from a Windows Index service, malware, browser plugin ... could be a lot of things. If it was me I would reinstall Windows ... but that might be extreme for you.

flycaster said:

Been noticing this for a while: Whenever I'm off the computer during the day, I place it on sleep. At the end of the day, I completely shut down. Not sure if what I'm about to describe occurs shortly after waking up from sleep or shortly after boot up. Nonetheless, as I'm browsing, or in my email, all of a sudden everything freezes, can't move a thing, nothing responding. The arrow cursor turns ino a small blue circle, but he circle is not rotating. This lasts for about a minute or less, and then everything resumes as if nothing happened. What's happening?

Hello, try to open the ressource monitor and keep an eye on it, redo it for every tabs and see if something goes to 100% and what provoke it.

You may want to make a checkdisk using your hard-drive tools (WD life guard / seatools, depends the brand you're using)

Regards

Magissia said:

Hello, try to open the ressource monitor and keep an eye on it, redo it for every tabs and see if something goes to 100% and what provoke it.

That is a good idea, you could also run FileMon from microsoft and see what is spiking things too.

Work through these Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7 starting with the hardware tests.

I'd also suggest you use the modern Hibernate feature which is perfected in Win7, writes the RAM to HD and shuts down the PC so that it starts up with everything saved in place, but twice as fast or faster. This may save wear on the RAM which has to hold power and everything on it during sleep.