Windows 10: Laptop freezing problem since day 1.

So I have a laptop with mediocre specs 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD and a clock speed of 2.3 GHz. I had ordered it online. It freezes a lot and until I shut it downwhich takes a lot of time since it's frozen, it won't be normal again. Sometimes, I do not have the time to do this and I forcibly shut it down, this slows my pc. I already had exchanged another model because of the same issue and when they gave this one to me, it still hanged, I thought it to be a problem because it is new. It's just around 6-7 months old now and it's very slow. How can I fix this? Does it have anything to do with RAM? P

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Screen Freezing up

Andre, thanks for your suggestions. I performed all steps as you listed and it appears that there were

some problems that have been corrected. I will let you know in a day or so if the "freeze" problem

occurs again. Many thanks for your help --- this took longer than I expected!

Jan

 

laptop doesnt boot automatically

This is what happened.

1. Did a repair install and later disabled hibertnate in CMD.
2. Enabled legacy option ROM in BIOS.
3. After a few times startup ( i used the system in such mode for 5 days), changed boot option back to default.
4. Vola!! It boots automatically to win10 without any keypress. Tested it with many starts to confirm the same.
5. Re-enabled hibernate option using CMD and later selected Fast Startup.
6. System booted normally, without the need for any keypress.

I do not know exactly whether such steps resolved the problem or what else happened, hence cannot suggest above steps.

Many thanks to all members who helped to troubleshoot problems.

 

Constant Google Chrome problems (not crashing or freezing)

I first noticed this problem with Netflix. I can't watch Netflix.com in Chrome for more than one day. After a fresh install of Chrome, I can watch Netflix endlessly in one day, but the next day all videos will say "Oops something went wrong" and suggest looking at chrome://components, or suggest clearing all browser history/cache (which doesn't fix anything).

The next symptom was that chrome couldn't connect to any website at all, giving a message of "Aw, snap!". Any other browser worked fine.

Steps I've taken that fail to resolve:

1. Clearing all browser cache/history/temp files

2. Killing chrome.exe to ensure a fresh process

3. Renaming the AppData folder to old_Chrome so it generates new appdata

The only "step" that actually fixes chrome is to fully uninstall and reinstall it. But it always breaks again 1 to 3 days later. This problem has spanned across a clean OS reimaging I did last weekend (for other reasons).

Specs:

Windows 10.0.18362 Build 18362 (Pro), custom build tower, no 3rd party anti-virus, standard out-of-box windows firewall settings