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    Windows 7 constantly getting "not responding"

    Thanks again. I did download this little thing that shows your operating system and hardware vendors installed on the machine. I'll just go ahead and call Acer and ask them whats what
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    Windows 7 constantly getting "not responding"

    Thanks mic, I'll check those things out. I have run diskcheck/repair but not in safe mode. I basically went into the hd properties, scheduled a check which it would do the next time I booted up. Never noticed anything bad other than a couple orphaned files. Fan seems ok. Doesn't overstress as...
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    Windows 7 constantly getting "not responding"

    Thanks again nonposting, you've helped. What kills me is that for the past few days after getting these constant interrupts, it hasn't done it. And I have absolutely no idea how or why. But I do know one day, tomorrow or a couple months from now, it'll return. lol oh, yes...I've got to do...
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    Windows 7 constantly getting "not responding"

    Thanks. The laptop runs fine otherwise. I have hard disk sentinel running on startup and it always says its fine. Yesterday I started this thread cause it was happening and now today it didn't happen for some voodoo reason. And the in a couple months it'll act up and drive me nuts. How long...
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    Windows 7 constantly getting "not responding"

    Yes, Windows 7. Thanks, I'll try the memtest. As a matter of fact, I had ran that one on my macbook once before. CPU is an AMD athlon 64 X2 QL65 2.1Ghz with a ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphjics. Yes, Acer has a bunch of stuff on there like Acer assist, update, launcher, power manager, etc. I'm not...
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    Windows 7 constantly getting "not responding"

    Hi. thanks Acer Aspire. Got 4gb ram. Drive diagnostics was always fine. Never bothered to do a memory test. Are there any free ones out there? I use macs but I bought this less expensive laptop to knock around with. As a last thing I could think of is I disabled Avira but it still did it. Its...
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    Windows 7 constantly getting "not responding"

    Hi. I'm having an issue with my pc laptop thats driving me apoplectic. I've had this computer a little over a year now and after a few months the computer started giving me the "not responding" thing. Not just in one application but everything hangs for a minute or two. It gets so bad that it...