Chris Shearer Cooper wrote:
> I posted this same question last week and got the suggestion to free
> up disk space on my C: drive - which I did (I now have 53G free on my
> 111G C: disk) but the same strange freezing behavior keeps happening!

IIRC, you were having problems defragging the C: drive earlier (because
it hardly any free space). Now that you've freed up adequate space, have
you tried defragging again?