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Computer Gets Stuck

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punkmanmatthew

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This all started happening one day when I opened steam. I opened steam this certain day and my computer just freezes. I can't ctrl,alt,delete or anything. The mouse doesn't move, keyboard doesn't work, sound stops if I have a video or music on. It completely freezes. The only thing I can do it hold the power button. So after this I wanted to play my steam games so I installed Windows 7 64 bit on another partition. So now I have 2 Windows 7 64 bit Os's on my computer. The new one I installed on the other partition runs everything great. My computer does not freeze.

But now when I open QQ ( a Chinese messenger thing) or AIM my computer freezes on the old partition. Everything still works good on my new partition with Windows 7 just my old one freezes.

So does anyone know why my computer freezes when these certain programs are opened? Also why did it start with steam? I do remember running a registry cleaner before steam started crashing. Could it be something messed up in my registry. I've tried many registry fixes or cleaner or defragments or whatever to try to see if that was the problem and I've reinstalled steam a million times and looked up how to fix it but nothing works that I've tried. I just don't know why aim and QQ freeze my computer also?

Comp. specs.
Laptop
Windows 7 64 bit
i5 processor
4gb ram
GTS 360m video card
500gb hdd
 
Sounds like some system/OS files got messed up in the old partition. You could try repairing the installation, which is what I would have suggested instead of installing a whole new OS onto another partition.
 
Reinstall, some files are messed up on the original installation.
 
How do I repair the installation. I have the Windows 7 installation dvd and it just says startup repair nothing else that will fix my computer. Do I just run that or is it somewhere else?

Thanks
 
What everyone else said with the repair/re-install of OS.

You are correct, just pop in the disk and do startup repair.

Oh, dont know how relvant this is but back before Windows 7 i used to have a problem similar to this and it was because the Virutal Ram was limited. I had to incease how much Virtual Ram the OS was aloud to use and it fixed it, however I dont even know if Windows 7 uses virtual ram anymore.
 
Insert your OS disc and choose the "Repair your computer" option. It will scan your system folders for missing and corrupt files. If that fails, and you still have system restore points, try to restore back to a point before you started having the problem.
 
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