What should I do when my computer screen freezes?

       Computers can freeze for a number of reasons, making trouble-shooting a sometimes difficult and painstaking process. However, if you don’t eliminate the problem, freezing will likely be repeated. As the problem arises most frequently on Windows computers. This doesn’t necessarily speak ill of Windows, but points to the fact that the majority of consumers use Windows and most malicious software is written to attack Windows operating systems. 

    However, it isn’t always software that causes computer freezes. Often it’s a hardware problem. This is easiest to diagnose when the computer was working fine until new hardware was added. Sometimes it’s a matter of simply installing the correct driver for the hardware, which might require surfing to the appropriate website to download a newer driver than the one that came packaged with the product. Faulty or incorrect drivers can cause computer freezes by trying to access computer resources that are already in use by the operating system.

    Bad random access memory (RAM) modules can also cause freezes, though RAM usually doesn’t “go bad” once installed unless damaged by overheating. A damaged or badly fragmented hard drive can cause problems, including computer freezes, so hard drives should be regularly defragmented.

1.) When your computer freezes, give it a few seconds to see if   it unfreezes itself. Chances are that at least 90% of the time, that will do the trick. If not, it may still be a temporary problem, only it is a little more stubborn!

2.) Second, Press the ‘Alt’, ‘Ctrl’ and ‘Del’ buttons all at the same time, and you should bring up the Windows Task Manager frame. See if any program is shown in the ‘Applications’ window as not being responsive.

 

3.) If anything shows, highlight it and click the ‘End Task’ toggle.Give it a few seconds, and the non-responsive programs or application should shut down.

4.) Apply correct software programs to the problem and run a full virus scan. Run your anti-virus scan in full just in case, but the chances are good that it is not a virus infection.

If not, then you have problems somewhere within the Windows registry.

5.) Run a free scan using the excellent SpeedyPC software, which should locate and isolate all of the potential problems within the registry of your PC.

6.) Then, simply download the software, and use it to get rid of whatever bugs, defects and errors there are in your Window system, some of which are more than likely behind the  frozen screen problems.