You'll probably have to start stutting things down in task manager one by
one to try and figure out what program is causing the freeze ups.

Jon Davis wrote:
I've done that already. It never shows up because Task Manager
freezes, too, and when it unfreezes the process that did the freezing
is no longer showing. Explorer does come up to the top, though. Can't
uninstall that.

Jon


"Phil (a.k.a. purplehaz)" wrote in message
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Open task manager, processes tab. When it "freezes" look in task
manager and see what using all the cpu cycles. Then kill the process
and uninstall the program if you can or post back what it is. Also
do a virus scan and spyware check.

Jon Davis wrote:
Every minute or so, the mouse freezes for anywhere between 1/2 to
ten seconds. I don't know if it's a hardware problem or a software
problem, but I really think it's a software problem, and I don't
know where to begin looking. In fact, I think it's Windows
Explorer, or something tied into it.

The reason why I think it's a software problem is because even
though Windows Explorer freezes while the mouse freezes, some other
programs do not. For instance, I might be playing a game, such as,
say, the Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo, and the mouse will just hang,
while the action continues. I can use the keys and keep running
around, but I can't change the direction I'm facing or fire my
weapon because the mouse is busy freezing for a few seconds. No
change in frame rate. Just frozen mouse. The mouse cable is fine.

It is the weirdest thing, only just started happening in the last
few weeks, and no, I don't remember any obvious installations I've
done. (Obviously this is caused by an installation or configuration
change, I just don't know what.)

I suppose it could also be a hardware problem, such as an IDE drive
problem perhaps, because Explorer is tied into those devices and it
does freeze if it can't read a drive. But my drives generally seem
to be working fine. Might my mapped drives over the network cause
such this kind of problem?

Help? Any ideas?

Jon