Freeze up is one of the most common problems which are faced by PC users now days. All of us have gone through such experience when our PC is freezed up. We can see our computer suddenly stops working when we are completing our project, playing games, sending email or typing the last sentence. This really irritates you a lot when you want to move the cursor with the help of your mouse and your mouse refuses. You want to type something but your key board is not supporting you. You want to shut down all the programs but they are not responding and in the end only solution infront of you is to switch off the main wire.

If you have some patience then unfortunately you have to push CTRL-ALT-DEL simultaneously. You shut your system in order to run it again. Sometimes it happen when you have to reboot the entire computer and if you haven’t saved any thing, you can risk losing every thing.

Freeze ups can be prevented if you considered it as a mere annoyance. Here are some strategies you follow inorder to prevent your computer from freezing up.

Keep open your programs to minimum: sometimes due to lack of RAM, most freezes are caused. A fixed amount of RAM is needed for your computer if you want to run the programs successfully. Each time you are taking away the part of memory when you open a program. And no choice is left to your computer but to lock up when whole of the memory is used.

The reason why you are facing the memory loss problems is that you are having too many programs opened and running at start up at the same time. Your RAM is drained by all these running programs; therefore less memory is left for the programs you want to work with right now.

By going into the options and making the changes, you can stop these programs from running at start up. Additionally try to use only few programs at a time. There are some programs when used with other softwares cause major drains on system and finally cause freeze ups.

Routine maintenance: like cars, computers also need some maintenance daily inorder to run them best. Cleaning up your history and defragmenting your hard derive are the two most important steps taken by you. Data is stored when you add it to your computer. Over the time data files spread out and often get moved from each other. As the files are to be placed together again so it makes the programs to operate slowly from the normal speed. Here defragmenting plays an important role by rearranges all the files and cleaning up the hard drive.

When there are too many files in your registry then the requests you made can take longer time to be fulfilled and completed. This causes freeze ups in the end. If you want to solve this problem then with easy to use tools maintenance of both the problems can be done.

Scan for spyware and viruses: virus and some type of spyware is another reason why your computer freezes up. Your RAM is sucked up, your registry is altered and you may face other problems too which your system can not deal with.

Use a reliable anti-spyware or anti virus program for your computer. Update these programs regularly with automatic updates. Atleast once a week you should complete a full scan to your computer in order to ensure that there are no problems.