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My Gateway with XP home, SP2, 768 mgs of RAM, freezes after about 5 min. The cursor freezes, and I have to reboot. I let it set for 20-30 min. and start again. Let it set, and it freezes. I haven't tried to keep working on it to see if it freezes. I removed a recently install software program, Family Tree Maker, which we have had for years. This was a new update version of the program. I removed it, but it froze again. I'm running a defrag right now. Did a clean up. I have a new hard drive, about 6 months old. Do you have any ideas what it could be?
Thanks,
Bob
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Right click the Taskbar and click Task Manager. Select the Processes tab and click the CPU column, so that processes are listed according to their CPU usage (high CPU usage at the top). Leave Task Manager running & when your system freezes you could possibly see which task is listed near the top & how much CPU time it is using.
The system crashes before to long. Only way it will boot up is pressing f8 when it's booting up. Then, open windows normally. But, before too long it freezes up again.
