Screen Locking Up

[huffman]

This has been going for a good while. Early in morning after booting up and open a few pages Win 7 will lockup. I can not close the open items or open new ones. The only way to do anything is to press the power button and shutdown.

I can then restart the PC normally. The longer the day goes, the less likely this lockup will occur. I have deleted cookies, ran MSE and Ccleaner. They do NOT find anything that should be causing this.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

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BTW the only new software added to this PC is Nordvpn. It does NOT seem to cause this issue, but one never knows.

 

[torchwood]

Hi

dont take this as gospel but if i remember correctly, when W7 was still officially supported during its twilight, Ccleaner was actually causing this kinda problem -- IF it was NOT set to MANUAL.

I would shoot over to Blackvipers W7 site, and depending upon your requirements choose either the base or barebone settings
Black Viper's Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Service Configurations - Black Viper | BlackViper.Com
note this is the recommended way you also have the option of unchecking startup items in system configuration

as for your AV/VPN, the AV part of it will be checking the connections constantly, so i would go for the matching pair.
Kaspersky has both for FREE
the lightest/easiest AV i know of is Bitdefender free, some are real hogs

i would also
turn off windows updates, and the drivers and associated MS programs parts
"remove" IE11, uncheck in programs/features
check update settings for programs/peripherals - Ccleaner,printers etc
install/run TFC, temporary file cleaner -

I have not checked for a couple months but the upgrade to W10 was still availble for free, march.
Upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 for Free | Tutorials

 

[huffman]

torchwood, I do NOT start Ccleaner automatically. I only start it when I am going to use it. Is that the manual setting? I am not sure how to make it manual.

I went to the Black Viper site and spent several minute looking at it. I did NOT see base or barebones. I will go back spend more time there.

Thanks for the info. This situation seems to be get worse day by day.

 

[huffman]

I will even thank them in advance.

So far this morning, W7 has locked up 4 times in less than 2 hrs.
Scratching my head is exasperation.

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torchwood, I am not sure the upgrade to Win 10 is still working. I was able to download the Media Creation Tool. I am not sure I will ever use it, but I have it just in case.

I think I have the screen locking up solved. I had not opened the case to the pc in years, I opened the case and cleaned out as much dust as I could and so far this morning, it is working much better.