Hello Everyone!
I really do hope you can help me with this.
For the past few weeks I’ve been reformatting my computer constantly because something was causing my laptop to lock up.
This is what happens: As soon as I boot into the desktop, I do whatever (Go to event viewer, surf the web, open up files) when out of nowhere, the window I’m using says “Not Responding”. Ok this is weird, so then I will try to close it but it won’t close. Ok try to open Task Manager. Nope that doesn’t work. How about opening something else like another window. Nope that doesn’t work. Everything, even Explorer itself locks up and says not responding.
A few times, I just let it sit and it will take a long while, but it will eventually fix itself. And that’s if I’m really lucky. Other times, it’ll lock up for good and all I can do is Hard Reset my laptop. Other times, it will “unlock” and will do whatever clicks and button presses I made during the lock up… but then it’ll go back to “not responding”.
I’ve been really annoyed at this and kept reformatting my computer, thinking I downloaded malware or it was because my os shared space with another os on the same drive. But once I installed everything I usually have on the Clean OS with no petitions on my harddrive, this problem persists.
A few hours ago, I did another clean install. This time only installed a few programs (Opera, Tune-Up Utilities 2012, all the Windows Updates and Avast) and, unfortunately, the problem has something to do with Avast. I know this because I’ve uninstalled it, played around with my computer and nothing locked up. Installed it again, and it locks up pretty early. I’m actually typing this up in Safe mode… It’s that bad.
My Laptop Specs are:
ASUS G51J-A1
Windows 7 64bit
Intel Core i7 720QM
8GB DDR3 RAM at 1300
Nvidia GTX 260M
2 Seagate Momentus 7200RPM - 320GB Each
If you need more information, please tell me.
I have the Avast! 7 Internet Security Paid Version and I really hate to not use what I bought.
Please HELP!
Thanks!