Windows 7 Upgrade – How To Fix Freezing Issues At Startup
Written on March 19, 2010 by Kay
There is nothing worse than a Blue PC screen at startup time. Panic sets in, and within a few minutes of trying to problem solve, most of us are gibbering wrecks of anxiety and frustration.
There are a number of reasons why a computer can freeze at startup.
Viral infections are an obvious problem, and probably the most commonly attributed cause of PC issues. Also blamed are the wickedly designed Trojan ware and spyware programs which many of us are downloading without being aware of it until it is too late.
Another startup killer is an overloaded system – typical of the Windows7 upgrade with all its extra features – where excessive programs are booted when the red button is thrown. Caching, paging and disc errors are often the result as program loadings compete for limited space in the system. The result? Slow, sluggish, unresponsive personal computers that make us wonder why we bought them in the first place! Reducing the number of programs in the startup folder can help, especially with Windows7.
Other problems include internal incompatibility – when the drivers of the hardware in your system are not compatible with the new operating system. Updating the drivers to the latest levels sometimes helps.
If you have done all this and you are still getting the blue screen, then it is time to look deeper into the system and see what else may be wrong. One sensitive area, and one which is often ignored until the last moment is an overloaded, clogged Windows registry – the place that Windows uses to keep a track of all the files, programs in your system.
Cleaning the registry out occasionally, and maintaining it for obsolete files and errors will aid your computer, making it start up more quickly and run more efficiently, as well as making it much more stable, as often the errors in Windows are caused by errors in the registry.
During upgrading, the registry is particularly vulnerable to errors, and should be cared for just like the drivers you have recently updated.
One of the best ways to maintain your registry is to use a repair tool or PC optimizer such as PC Doc Pro.
JUST AMAZING! This program was just amazing for my laptops performance. i had over 1000 junk files and it got rid of them all. My PC is even faster than when I bought it