My Windows 8 computer is freezing randomly.

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Jays_Inc

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So I had this computer for like at least 6 months, the 1st month was okay but then it went down hill from there. So I like to play this game called Warframe and occasionally the computer will freeze randomly (will also produce a buzz noise if audio is being played) and wont start up on the first time. So I left it for a few months and it's working normally. But now its starting to freeze randomly.

The freezes will last like 2-5 seconds and will usually stop or continue with other freeze for a longer duration of time.

Here are my specs:

Processor: AMD A6-5200 APU w/ Radeon(TM) HD Graphics 2.00 GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB (3.46 GB usable)
Adapter String: AMD Radeon HD 8400
 
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you might want to do a malwarebytes scan. if it comes up ok
I would start by turning off some of your third party services that are running on your machine and see if one of them is the cause.

I think your microsoft search indexer program was using too much memory. It searches your drive and builds a index of your user files. There is some issue where it kind of gets stuck in a loop and just never stops. you could stop the service and see if your problem goes away. to fix you have to delete the windows search index database that it built, but stop the service first and see if that is the cause.

you had other potential issues/programs that could also cause the slow down.
you should stop your 3rd party programs one at a time and...
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Jays_Inc

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Well do you know which processes may need to be disabled? I don't want to mess anything up.
 
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you might want to do a malwarebytes scan. if it comes up ok
I would start by turning off some of your third party services that are running on your machine and see if one of them is the cause.

I think your microsoft search indexer program was using too much memory. It searches your drive and builds a index of your user files. There is some issue where it kind of gets stuck in a loop and just never stops. you could stop the service and see if your problem goes away. to fix you have to delete the windows search index database that it built, but stop the service first and see if that is the cause.

you had other potential issues/programs that could also cause the slow down.
you should stop your 3rd party programs one at a time and see if one of them is the cause of the slowdown.




 
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velo3100

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I would start by turning off chrome in the startup programs, Another thing you can do is replace nortan with ms essentials which is a lighter weight program than nortan and use malwarebytes to scan for virues manually every week or so.

Try these and let me know if they help
 
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