Windows 8 Freezes – What to Do?

Your PC is one of your amigos that you can share everything with, and therefore, you never expect it to let you down. Despite this fact, if your computer encompassing Windows 8 is hanging, crashing, or freezing constantly, it must be a big disappointment for you. A personal computer is meant to serve its master whenever and wherever it is desired, but if it does not at some instances, the true meaning of PC is considered lost.

Windows 8 is one of the friendliest operating systems from Microsoft introduced till date. While using it, you can easily untie the secrets of your PC’s failures. The point of discussion in this script is to elaborate the root causes blamable in encountering such issues; the mechanism through which they affect; and suggested provisional as well as permanent fixes for these issues. Discoursed beneath are some of the issues responsible for the said situation.

Misconfigured Hardware

The kind of problem we are talking about usually occurs as an upshot of troubled hardware attached to your computer. A misconfigured hardware has the ability to impend the overall functioning of a PC. Make sure, any hardware devices that you recently connected to your computer, are well in place, as well as properly installed with Windows 8. To verify this, follow these instructions.

• Point your cursor on the upper-right corner of the screen, to view Charm bar
• On the Charm bar, click on the Search icon
• Type ‘device manager’, highlight Settings and hit Enter to view Device Manager window
• In the displayed list, locate and fix the hardware with a yellow exclamation mark (if any)
• Right click on the marked item, and go to the Properties
• To know the reason of this problem, view information under Device status on General tab
• On the Driver tab, click on the button Update Driver and select Search automatically for updated driver software in the new window.
• Also make sure the Other devices drop down does not contain any hardware issue
• Exit Device Manager

If the problem still exists, you are advised to remove recently connected hardware and witness any changes in your situation.

Outdated Drivers

Hardware, no matter how efficient and advanced, is a useless piece until it is accompanied with its concerned software. The software that runs the hardware is called its driver. A release of the driver does not certify its perfection. At instances, these may lack efficiency or disregard certain bugs. Post release fixes are required to address these issues from time to time.

Windows 8 has introduced the new patterns of operating your computer. In the initial stages of its release, it had many issues with drivers’ compatibility. Whenever you upgrade your operating system, you must take precautionary measures, by looking for driver updates by yourself. An outdated driver may cause an operating system to freeze, crash, and/or not respond, respectively. To ensure your device drivers as updated, follow these steps.

• Identify the make and model of your hardware device
• Access the official website of the manufacturer
• Search for the updates related to your device
• Download and install these updates
• Reboot your computer

Registry Errors

Windows 8 entails an information database called Registry, which is a network of ready information, within your computer memory. Installing and uninstalling numerous applications keep on making this registry more complicated. Unused files wandering around and broken threads of information in Windows Registry engender registry errors that may cause your system to hang, crash, or freeze. To prevent this from happening, you are advocated to frequently analyze your Windows Registry and scan it for possible errors. You can find certain, free of cost, third party applications to fix Windows 8 registry errors. Registry Recycler is one of these free registry softwares and is highly acclaimed one. To accomplish this, follow the guidelines given below.

• Download Registry Recycler
• Install the utility
• Double click the icon of newly installed application
• In the first look, you will find yourself on the Scanner tab
• Click Start Scan to examine your registry
• As the scanning completes, you will be prompted with the detail of errors found
• Click the Next button
• Click the Fix Errors button
• Close Registry Recycler
• Reboot your PC

System Restore

If neither of the above recommendations helped you, finding a way out, you always have the option to turn back to a state where your PC was trouble free. This is the state, which you already have set as your restore point. On restoring your system to that specific point, you would most probably lose the applications, settings, and advancements your system incorporated after that point. Track the following steps to get this thing done.

• Point your cursor on the upper-right corner of the screen, to view the Charm bar
• In the Charm bar, click on the Settings icon
• At the bottom of the task pane, click the Power button
• Hold Shift key and click the Restart option
• This will take your system to Advanced startup options
• While the Advanced startup options load, you will be provided with System Recovery Options
• Click on the Troubleshoot option, in the Choose an option interface
• In the Troubleshoot interface, go to the Advanced options
• In the Advanced options interface, click System Restore
• Your system will reboot with a System Restore wizard
• Select a desired restore point and complete the wizard to start the restore process

In the same Advanced startup options, you have the choice to refresh your Windows 8, through the Troubleshoot option. The feature enables users to refresh Windows 8 without affecting files.

In case, you have not found this article helpful in resolving your issues, you must be coming across to any technical issue, related to you hardware components. In this situation, feel free to contact the manufacturer or your concerned supplier.