What to Do When Your Windows 7 Computer Freezes After Being Idle

The computer is genuinely one of the most incredible gifts of Science. It has improved our lives beyond man can ever imagine. It is important to a variety of people for a variety of reasons. It is important to me because I use it for a living and it keeps me connected with my friends and family around the world. The way it influences our daily lives, needless to say then that in this fast changing world of advancing technology that most of us cannot live without our computers.

Life is perfect if everything works the way we desire it to be. But computers are not made to be perfect. In some way or the other you will experience certain software or hardware related issues that will surely challenge your patience. Here is one of the most common problems that most of us give a little bit of attention but may result to annoyance and discomfort at some point.

What if your Windows 7 computer freezes after being idle? Holding down the power button until it goes off and push it again to turn it back on should do the trick. How about if it keeps on happening again and again? In most cases, it would be just an easy fix. However, there are instances that things are much complicated and finding the original cause is like finding a needle in the haystack.

Here are some of the steps that you may try to resolve this issue:

• Do not under estimate the power of the firewall. Firewall is designed to protect the computer from viruses and security threats, but it may cause some problems if not configured properly. Temporarily disable the firewall and antivirus software on the computer and check if that fixes the issue.

• If the above step doesn't solve the issue, you may change the power plan. Simply go to Control Panel, select Power Options, click on Change plan settings and select Never. Click Change advance power settings, and go to each setting and change them to Never, and hit OK.

• If the issue still occurs, restart the computer in clean boot. This is to check whether the problem has something to do with third-party software conflicts. To perform a clean boot, you may follow the link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135.

• If the problem persists, you may perform an SFC Scan. The System File Checker tool scans Windows system files and restores corrupted files. For more information, check the link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833.

If it's still not working, then you may consider updating the drivers. This issue could also be traced to outdated audio and video drivers. You may need to uninstall the sound and graphics card, restart the computer, and let Windows 7 to automatically reinstall the drivers. Download the latest driver available on the manufacturer's website and install it on the computer. If the latest driver is not available, you may refer back to the previous version.

Hope this article will serve you if ever you will encounter such issue. You really don't need to be a genius to fix computer problems but rather a curious individual. Just open up your computer, launch any browser, Google your queries and you'll be amazed that all the information you need is right at your fingertips.

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Article Written By: James Ryan Ylanan - A Supportrix tech engineer