I discovered a couple months ago that some program in my computer chewed up all of my physical memory/storage. I tried to find the cause and fix it but eventually gave up and saved my important info to a memory stick then rebooted the system back to factory settings last week. I've now had to do that 3 times as when I first do it, everything works great. A couple days later, I can get into windows and open up my browser but that's it. From that point on everything freezes and even doing a hard reboot wont fix the problem. I reloaded windows 7 of thursday last week back to factory specs and only installed avg, deleted norton trial, and installed the latest and greatest version of firefox(which I'm not a fan of but it's better than IE). I spent 3 hours last night trying to get the browser up and running but kept getting the (not responding) message in the top bar. Pressing control alt del did nothing. After a couple minutes, the pop up screen would appear and also say not responding.
So now I am stumped. The only thing I can think of is windows updates are messing up the system. It goes through the first round of updates fine but the second set causes it to freeze. Anyone else having any issues like this?
So now I am stumped. The only thing I can think of is windows updates are messing up the system. It goes through the first round of updates fine but the second set causes it to freeze. Anyone else having any issues like this?