Help! My Laptop Keeps Freezing!
Having your laptop freeze is a drag. It only happens when you’re doing something important and you were just about to hit save, or you were at a critical level in your game, and poof! It’s gone. Sometimes a freeze will just automatically restart your computer. Other times, you are stuck, and nothing moves, nothing responds; even Ctrl+Alt+Del gets no response from the computer. The only way to restart it is to unplug the power cord and pull out the battery. Yikes!
You are so careful to only carry it in its laptop cases, and never bump it. It’s not your fault that it keeps freezing, though. There is always one singular cause of these freezes and that is Windows. You can either modify your Windows use, or kick it to the curb. To modify one’s windows use, you have two routes, depending on the root cause within Windows.
If you have too many programs running in Windows, this can cause it to slow down. Windows constantly has programs running in the background, whether you actually need them or not. So, go to the Start menu and click on Run. Type in “msconfig.” Now you will see all of the programs that Windows just always has going. You can manually switch the preferences so that they only run when you ask them to. Or, you can purchase more RAM so that Windows can do whatever it wants without crashing on your laptop table quite as much.
The other option is a registry cleaner. Registry cleaners are needed because Windows makes a mess of its system over time, yet has no internal cleaning tool. You have to purchase one separately. Is it a genius marketing tool to create a program with a known flaw, then sell the correction for an extra fee? Maybe it is. But Windows is the dominator in the operating system market, so most people think this is just a part of life.
It is not required, though. There are other great operating systems out there. Other operating systems were made so that they don’t have flaws that cost the consumer more money to fix. Linux, for example, was designed by the geekiest of them all and is continually working on upgrading itself. It is free and does not need a registry cleaner. Mac OS was also created by some supergeeks. It is not free, but has better technical support than Linux. If you computer is freezing thanks to Windows, you can either play Windows’ game and continue to pay them money, or you can switch to something much, much better.
