Windows 7 freezing
Hello!
I bought a new notebook (Acer Aspire 7736ZG) at the beginning of this year and everything was fine so far, but now I am facing serious problems for a few days already.
It all started with winamp making troubles in playing some new mp3s (basically, it just stopped playing, but everything else worked fine, so I thought the files were corrupted), but when I rebooted the notebook everything was fine again. Then, the next day (yesterday, to be precise), Windows 7 started to freeze basically directly after booting. This is especially visible in the task bar, which would not do anything anymore and did not let me click and open anything. After forcing a reset, I was offered a system test and repair (I hope you know what I mean; my system is all in German and I don't know the English terms of art), but that did not really help. The system then was at a point where it seemed stable until one would open any kind of internet browser (IE or Firefox) and the trouble would start in the same way as before (freezing, etc.). In addition, everything slowed down extremely. Later, I was able to uninstall a program I had installed a day or two before (Veoh Web-Player) and I thought I had found the troublemaker, since everything (with the exception of IE) worked fine again, but I am back to where I was before since this morning. Moreover, the desktop background (only the background, not the icons) is being displayed strangely at the half (I cannot really explain it, but I can upload a screenshot later today) and the whole system is extremely slow. Actually, the speed etc. seems fine when I open a program (except anything web browser) or folder directly after Windows is finished booting, but after I close this one, I cannot open anything else and the task bar and startup menue freeze as before.
I cannot really think of a mechanical problem here, since everything was fine a day before and my laptop is practically standing around on my desk all day without being moved or touched or anything (since I am at university for most of the day). I tried to let my virus scanner look out for something, but so far, it did not really work out without it freezing.
I am really at a loss here what could have happened and what could be done to solve these problems and I would be very grateful for any help and suggestions~
(I really don't want to give it away for warranty repair, due to very bad experiences with my old notebook last year...)
Oh, before I forget, my system data:
I use an Acer Aspire 7736ZG with a Pentium Dual-Core T4300 (2.1 GHz, 800MHz FBS) and 3GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium (64 Bit), NVIDIA GeForce Q10M and a 320GB HDD. The browsers I have installed are IE8 and Firefox 3.6.3.
Thankyou for your help!
(I hope I am using the correct tags...)
I bought a new notebook (Acer Aspire 7736ZG) at the beginning of this year and everything was fine so far, but now I am facing serious problems for a few days already.
It all started with winamp making troubles in playing some new mp3s (basically, it just stopped playing, but everything else worked fine, so I thought the files were corrupted), but when I rebooted the notebook everything was fine again. Then, the next day (yesterday, to be precise), Windows 7 started to freeze basically directly after booting. This is especially visible in the task bar, which would not do anything anymore and did not let me click and open anything. After forcing a reset, I was offered a system test and repair (I hope you know what I mean; my system is all in German and I don't know the English terms of art), but that did not really help. The system then was at a point where it seemed stable until one would open any kind of internet browser (IE or Firefox) and the trouble would start in the same way as before (freezing, etc.). In addition, everything slowed down extremely. Later, I was able to uninstall a program I had installed a day or two before (Veoh Web-Player) and I thought I had found the troublemaker, since everything (with the exception of IE) worked fine again, but I am back to where I was before since this morning. Moreover, the desktop background (only the background, not the icons) is being displayed strangely at the half (I cannot really explain it, but I can upload a screenshot later today) and the whole system is extremely slow. Actually, the speed etc. seems fine when I open a program (except anything web browser) or folder directly after Windows is finished booting, but after I close this one, I cannot open anything else and the task bar and startup menue freeze as before.
I cannot really think of a mechanical problem here, since everything was fine a day before and my laptop is practically standing around on my desk all day without being moved or touched or anything (since I am at university for most of the day). I tried to let my virus scanner look out for something, but so far, it did not really work out without it freezing.
I am really at a loss here what could have happened and what could be done to solve these problems and I would be very grateful for any help and suggestions~
(I really don't want to give it away for warranty repair, due to very bad experiences with my old notebook last year...)
Oh, before I forget, my system data:
I use an Acer Aspire 7736ZG with a Pentium Dual-Core T4300 (2.1 GHz, 800MHz FBS) and 3GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium (64 Bit), NVIDIA GeForce Q10M and a 320GB HDD. The browsers I have installed are IE8 and Firefox 3.6.3.
Thankyou for your help!
(I hope I am using the correct tags...)