I've got an old Dell desktop computer (~12-13 years old); and in the last couple of weeks been having an issue of it hanging up. It's Windows 7 Pro and has been a very solid machine. I believe the HDD in it is a 5,400 rpm WD. It will start giving me one of those little blue circling busy signals while operating various programs and it will just be solidly hung. This happens now about once or twice daily. I've sometimes waited hours to see if it would resolve, but most times it doesn't and a Control Alt Delete (sometimes allowing me to end various open programs) won't even fix it. I end up having to do a hard reboot. After a late afternoon hang yesterday, I just shut it down, and this morning when I rebooted it; the start up went into a check disc routine. Seems it didn't really find anything, and it has booted normally. I've ran a couple of virus checkers and Defrag checks also, and didn't find anything unusual. I've also done some research online, but of course that stuff's all over the place.
I'm hoping it's just some buggy program I can root out, but not sure there either.
I've really enjoyed Win. 7 and hate to lose it for an updated Win. 10 (which I have on a networked NUC.) I've thought about just seeing if I can get a large SSD installed on it to replace it, but it would be Win. 10.
This is an important machine for me, as I listen to my surround titles (5.1) from it as my work station.
Anyone have any similar issues and suggestion, other than just ing???
I'm hoping it's just some buggy program I can root out, but not sure there either.
I've really enjoyed Win. 7 and hate to lose it for an updated Win. 10 (which I have on a networked NUC.) I've thought about just seeing if I can get a large SSD installed on it to replace it, but it would be Win. 10.
This is an important machine for me, as I listen to my surround titles (5.1) from it as my work station.
Anyone have any similar issues and suggestion, other than just ing???