I have a strange issue where my computer will freeze for a few seconds and then resume normal activity
I call it lagging rather then freezing because it recovers but during the lag time typically very few things will work making it feel very much like my computer has frozen,
I can usually alt tab to something else that is running but will be unable to interact with most things
here's a screen shot taken during one such lag please note that it doesn't only happen when im running vlc but does happen most of all when I have some full screen application running.

This happens to me as well, only during WC3 though. I find that minimizing all other applications can help sometimes.

Interesting issue there Zorach, I see that you have prefetch enabled perhaps try clearing that folder? C:\Windows\prefetch

lol at PID 4 :ninja:

Is that machine running Vista perchance?

Random freezing is most likely going to be dodgy RAM, and as Nav pointed out, prefetch loads stuff into RAM.

Also could be dodgy hdd/filesystem your doing a fair amount of hdd reads when it froze.

I'd do a chkdsk which is quick and easy to check the file system, Vista auto-defrags so that should be ok.
Seatools for windows to check the physical hard drive.

swapping RAM is the easiest way to test that, if you have 2 sticks that you can run 1 at a time or another PC you can swap with, otherwise download the memtest bootable iso and run a few times.

That picture hosting service must be blocked here. I'd run Memtest like Chris said. Also is that Spybot's Teatimer running? Try disabling if it is?

P4 Wrote:... download the memtest bootable iso and run a few times.

Vista is so great that it already has a memory diagnostics tool. It is called... "Memory Diagnostics Tool". Run Mdsched.exe and it will ask you to restart to perform the test.

Microsofts built in programs tend to suck but w/e

^ Microsoft's built in diagnostic tools as well as the ones they offer for download are generally pretty good

They have always had a RAM checker available from http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp This was recent integrated into Windows Vista.

Judah Wrote:Microsofts built in programs tend to suck but w/e

Lol wtf, there you go again! ha