Vista64 freezes ... sometimes

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Simon

Hi,

I am not sure how best to describe my problem.
I have windows Vista 64 and, as far as I can tell everything is working
as expected. It has 4Gb memory and 500Gb hd.

I also think I have a fairly 'conservative' bunch of applications.
Firefox, Skype, IE8, no games, no fancy tool bars/gadgets or anything
like that.
I have office 2007 and up to date with all the latest updates.
My anti virus is Avast, (the free one).

I use a router to go on the net, use the default windows firewall and
windows defender. I mostly ever only go on well known sites,
(http://www.skynews.com/ and the likes).

Everything works fine for a while, but sometimes, if I leave my computer
unattended for while it freezes, (but, it never freezes when I am
working on it).

The whole screen is frozen, and looking at the, (frozen), clock it looks
like it froze only minutes after I leave the computer unattended, (but
as I said, this does not always happen).

Are there any logs or anything I could check to explain what the problem
could be?
Could the search index be the problem?

Any suggestions as to what the problem could be?

Thanks in advance.

Simon
 
Hi Simon, there is the reliability monitor in Control Panel, which
presents everything in graph-like format so you can avoid going
through a whole series of alerts. This link gives you a brief run-
down: http://www.petri.co.il/reliability_monitor_windows_vista.htm.

You can also try the hardware diagnostics tool that most likely came
on a cd with your machine or which is already installed on your
machine and you can boot to it. You can try a diagnostic on all your
hardware components.

Good luck
 
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