How to prevent system freezes

System Freeze Up

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Even if you are not a regular PC user, you at least once have experienced system freeze on your computer. System freezes are the commonly occurring in lower version of Windows OS and lower capacity PC. It also randomly appears even in the high end computers with latest version of windows OS. There are various reasons for its occurrence. Let’s talk about its cause and how to prevent them…

What are the causes of system freeze?

1. A PC is set to perform within a norm and if the computing exceeds that norm, system freezes occurs. Even with regular system update of programs and hardware device drivers, if your computing exceeds beyond what your PC is set to handle, the system freeze occurs. That is the main cause of a system freeze!
2. Another cause is that when a user installs programs or hardware device drivers that are incompatible.
3. Likewise if a software package is high ended but installed in a computer with smaller computing capacity. That is another reason.
4. When temporary folder is full that its bloats up and over uses the disk space. Temporary folder is where all the temporary files needed by running software are saved in. For ex. The internet browser saves all its files downloaded from the internet in the temporary folder.
5. Hard disk bad sectors as a result of overhaul. When a program or file that is located in the bad sector of the hard disk is loaded up, the system freezes up on you.
6. The page file, which saves all the files as a cache, when bloats up.
7. When a system registry is cluttered and disorganized with too many invalid or wrong and unwanted items, it bloats up. A cluttered registry prevents easy access of file settings and thus a system hangs up as a result of executing these bad entries to get to the right one.

The Remedy – How to prevent system freezes:

1. Before installing a software package of hardware device drive make sure it’s compatible with your computer.
2. Don’t install the programs that did not meet your system requirements.
3. Use Disk cleanup tool to cleanup temporary folder periodically.
4. Use Disk defragmenter tool to reorganize files into healthy sectors thereby fixing the bad sectors in the hard disk.
5. Adjust your page file size to what system recommends.
6. Invest in a registry cleaner and do periodic registry house keeping!