Laptop locking up after booting up.

perhaps try Chrome as default browser

[Osem]

I tried starting up and using Chrome rather than IE the other day but the same thing happened.

[Osem]

Went straight into an image editing programme after starting up this morning and once again the laptop snarled up about 2 mins into things. It cleared after about another couple of mins as if nothing had happened. I cancelled a number of startup programmes yesterday but this has obviously made no difference.

Can someone tell me exactly where to look in event viewer so I can see what went on shortly after I booted her up? Cheers.

[Taf]

Another thing to consider is perhaps it needs a physical clean to keep it cool?

You could try opening task manager and checking out to see what resources get spiked by what as it happens (under processes)

[Osem]

The machine is very clean and the fan very rarely comes on.

Next time I start her up I'll try to remember to launch task manager and have a peek.

Nothing else appears to be going on so I'm not desperate to get it fixed asap but it is annoying.

Cheers guys.

[qasdfdsaq]

As above, sounds like a hard drive issue (that or an initialization hang - I've got one of those on my system right now due to Windows' crappy network file stack)