Screen keeps freezing

[V6GTO]

I know it could be a lot of things, but what is the most likely cause, and probable solution, for my screen to keep freezing It's driving me nuts....every 15 or 20 miutes. For those that did'nt hear:-

IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS

I,ve got a Dell Dimention 4600 3Ghz wotsit with all the bells and whistles, running Windows XP.
Cheers, Martin.

[Plotloss]

Open task manager and keep it open on top of all other windows. Click mem to put the list in memory use order.

When this freeze happen whats the process with the highest memory useage?

[V6GTO]

Sorry, I'm a computer dummy...where is the task manager?

[Plotloss]

Right click the taskbar in an area thats free and select task manager.

[simpo two]

Plotloss said:

Right click the taskbar in an area thats free and select task manager.

Or the famous Ctrl/Alt/Del (once only)

[V6GTO]

It's bloomin' marvelous...I have the task manager on, getting in the way, for two days and nothing, As soon as I leave it off it starts again! However, it would appear that the waol.exe file is the biggest file at 47.5k. Any advice?

[pmanson]

V6GTO said:

It's bloomin' marvelous...I have the task manager on, getting in the way, for two days and nothing, As soon as I leave it off it starts again! However, it would appear that the waol.exe file is the biggest file at 47.5k. Any advice?

I'm just running a check on mine to see if it has "waol.exe" couldn't see it in my task manager.

Have you tried updating the drivers?

[pmanson]

Try this...............

www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/154177.html

Are you running AOL?

[agent006]

I saw a man today with a steering wheel hanging out of his trousers. I asked him waht it was for AND HE SAID

V6GTO said:

IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS

[tvrgit]

It's part of the AOL installation and this problem seems to be fairly common.

www.nocrash.com/ncbbs/msgs/3204.shtml

[V6GTO]

Thanks, guys, I'll let you know how it goes. M.

[V6GTO]

Is there any way of fixing this without buying sortware?

[size13]

Try going to Add/remove programs and uninstall it first, then put it back on if you really need it.