Wifi freezes my computer

Those driver update sites are poison. Mostly malware and bad drivers. Your only valid source for drivers is the OEM of your equipment. It would not be surprising to learn that your problem is one or more bad drivers. In fact, in most cases, the Win7 installer will install all the drivers itself. Those drivers are all that you should be using. After the install completes check Device manager. If one or more drivers are missing go to the website of that piece of equipment's OEM and download and install that driver.

A lot of people screw this up. Drivers should never be updated, ever. Unless, there is a specific problem diagnosis that points to a driver.

In that case again, download the current driver from the OEM and do not install any other drivers. This thread is locked. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by blxmwi Solved. Laptop freezes when connected to internet via WiFi. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Solution 1. Accepted Solutions.

Community Accepted Solution. Replies 4. It could still take ten to twenty seconds for the unresponsive program to be terminated after choosing End Task. If the Task Manager opens but the mouse is still not working, it may be a problem with the mouse.

If none of the steps above helped, you must reboot the computer. To reboot a frozen computer, press and hold down the power button until the computer turns off. Once the computer is off, wait a few seconds, turn it back on and let it start as usual. During the computer startup process, you may see a screen asking if you want to start the computer in Safe Mode or Start Windows Normally.

Choose the Start Windows Normally option and see if Windows starts up without error. Any work not saved is lost when a frozen computer needs to be rebooted. In some situations, some programs may autosave your work every few minutes.

If the program you are using performs this action, you can recover the work up to the last autosaved state. If you tried all steps above and the computer still freezes, there may be defective hardware or a device driver not working correctly.

A defective hard drive , stick of RAM , video card , or another piece of hardware can cause a computer to freeze. A device driver can also cause a computer to freeze if it's out of date, conflicting with another driver, or not working correctly. Based on your description, I would like to inform you that please update the Wi-Fi driver and check if it resolve the issue. Please follow the below steps:.

Right click on the Wi-Fi driver and click on update. If the issue still persist I suggest you to contact with the computer manufacturer and check for latest updated Wi-Fi driver. Since Windows 10 is launched they also may have the latest driver updated which is compatible to Windows Hope this helps.

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