I have a maddening problem with my Windows 7 64bit pro PC. It works fine except for the maddening problem of it intermittently "Not Responding". For example: I start the PC. It works fine for 5 minutes. Then I go to launch a program and nothing happens. It doesn't launch. Then everything freezes for a minute or two and it all starts working perfectly.
Let's say I am using Chrome to browse for example. All of a sudden I get the dreaded "not responding" message on top of the browser. Then...at that time....I click on XYexploer (for example) and if I click to launch it nothing happens. It doesn't launch. Then I click it a couple of more times. Nothing happens. It still won't launch. Then....after waiting a minute or two......the program (any program but for the sake of this discussion XYexplorer) launches three times. In other words three (or however many times I clicked on the icon originally) programs open one on top of the other so I have three XYexplorers open at the same time. It took one to two minutes for the computer to respond to me clicking on the icon three times to open.
Then I can go along for several minutes or more and it happens again. It's killing my productivity. Have to wait a minute or two between these pauses or " not responding" situations is killing me.
I have 12 gigs of ram.
I have Norton 360 and no viruses have been detected. I have uninstalled Norton and tried other virus scanners thinking that might be the problem. It wasn't. I ran malwarebytes.....nothing detected. Check disk runs with no errors found.
I am at a complete loss as what to do.
If anyone here can help I would be profoundly grateful.
Thank you.
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