Windows 8 keeps freezing FFS! Update!

[Thom89]

As above, Samsung laptop, a few months old, and very little use so far, while on the net will start to lock up one minute, then be OK the next, or, just be a complete pain in the arse, and surfing is forced into giving up! If its of any relevance, Norton 360 is installed, Google Chrome is installed, but Internet Explorer probably gets used the most, problems occur whether IE or GC are used

Thanks
Thom

[Rhyso]

Id hazard a guess that its Norton giving you grief 

[Jay]

Get rid of Norton  You'll be surprised what that sh!t can do while trying to be "helpful".

[bobbarley]

Windows 8 is your problem, its absolute gash!

[justalex81]

combination of norton, windows 8 and poorly written drivers.

get rid of norton. this in itself is a PITA to do. Factory reset i think

[Ninja]

combination of norton, windows 8 and poorly written drivers.

get rid of norton. this in itself is a PITA to do. Factory reset i think

Get rid of windows 8. It's gash. Other than that, maybe try disabling your add ons individually to see if any are causing issues. Open ie in safe mode (no add ons) and work from there. If safe mode ie does not work, you know it's not an add on.

[Thom89]

Thanks for the replies, I've uninstalled Google Chrome as a starting point, putting the machine pretty much back to its brand new spec! this seems to have solved the problem

Thom

[Ninja]

Thanks for the replies, I've uninstalled Google Chrome as a starting point, putting the machine pretty much back to its brand new spec! this seems to have solved the problem

Thom

I reckon it's a browser add on.

[thai-wronghorse]

Ive always preferred Mozilla Firefox to IE or Google Chrome. And yes,  f**k off Norton.

[simonpolly]

Do you keep losing your internet connection when using the laptop wireless ?,if so change your power mangement settings to the best performance setting, if its set to a balanced setting it will keep dropping the wireless connection when the laptop is not plugged into the power.