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Solved! My Laptop constantly freezing programs!

Diginovice

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Mar 14, 2011
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My Laptop (netbook) is Degee I8B11D4 and recently it has picked up this annoying habit of stopping and freezing pretty much any program I run every 2 to 10 minutes. No matter the program, everything from Torchlight to windows explorer(actually froze firefox after typing that), the program will freeze and I will get the "not responding" message most of the time. The amount of time it will lock up varies roughly between 5-30 seconds and sometimes longer.

My anti-virus(avast) tells me I'm clean, and I have defragmented and cleaned out my HDD. I even went through and cleaned as much dust as I could find and still to no avail. I have no real idea what is causing this. If anyone could help narrow my problem down I would greatly appreciate it.

My specs are:
Brand: Degee I8B11D4
Operating System: Windows7
Processor: Intel Atom D425 1.8GHZ
Graphic Processor: Intel GMA X3150
Display: 10.2'' Wide-screen 1280*600 WXGA
System Memory: DDRII 1G
Hard Drive: SATA 160G
 
Solution



Task Manager
All Processes

check the memory it's using for the process called
plugin-container.exe

My suspicions are that program causing it.. \

OR
you just lack sufficient amount of ram..
1 gb is small..
 
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