Locking Up and Freezing Issues...

MajorGeeks has been such a great help for me, I just wanted to thank you guys for the support before I begin. Thank you.

So, I've been borrowing my mom's computer. I thought it had some malware because lately, Google Chrome and IE had both been locking up and randomly freezing. Chrome got so bad I had to delete it. Well, you guys cleared me on the malware front, so now I'am here. I'll post as many specs as I can. Thank you so much. This freezing, locking up, and lag is driving me crazy! I've defraged my computer, cleaned the disks, and have deleted all temporary files multiple times!


Operating System

Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2 (build 6002)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 8/17/2010 10:18:28 PM
Boot Mode: BIOS (Secure Boot not supported)

Processor

1.87 gigahertz Intel Pentium Dual
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded

Drives

250.06 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
168.73 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-T633A [Optical drive]

WDC WD2500BEVT-75A23T0 [Hard drive] (250.06 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WXH1A3079709, rev 01.01A01, SMART Status: Healthy
Memory

2038 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM_A' has 1024 MB (serial number 6252079C)
Slot 'DIMM_B' has 1024 MB (serial number 625207D6

 

I appreciate your timely response.

Yes, it is only freezing while using the internet. Viewing documents, folders, running programs, etc., is all fine. It seemed to get worse about two weeks ago. I was primarily a Chrome user, but it got so bad, I had to delete it. IE works slightly better.

I live in a home that has cable internet.

I believe I'm currently running IE with no add-ons.

Thank you!