More on Windows 7 freezeup
I think I have found the cause of my freezeups on Windows 7. I searched around and found a lot of different posts about Windows 7 freezing problems, many possibly related to graphics driver issues. My freezeup happened only when wakening the computer after an extended idle period. I changed all the power settings to prohibit sleep, but it still happened. Stuff like this aggravates me to no end… when I buy things, I expect them to perform properly.
After examining the event viewer I began to suspect indexing. I changed the option for my drives to uncheck the box labeled “Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties”. So far, I have not had any freezing on wakeup. Of course, this is just a workaround… Windows 7 should not freeze if indexing is happening. Doing more than one thing at a time is called multitasking, and Windows is purportedly a multitasking operating system.
Microsoft, get a clue.