[mike1061]

Do you have anything else running at he same time? Is it possable you are over loading the CPU, or memory? The task manager will tell you if those are overloaded.
What was the last thing you changed? I'm talking about computer settings, adding or deleting programs. Stuff like that.
Is the harddrive your working with nearly full?
How about spyware?
Those are the type of things I see causing freeze ups like that.
Thanks Mike