laptop stuck

Hello to all,

since last week my laptop get stuck sometimes. It happens when any programme working. I dont know what is the reason for that . Im using windows 8.
when it stuck i cant do anything
if i wana do something first i have to stop any programe that i have started using task manager

core i5,
8gb ram
dell laptop.

 

Check hard drive light when stuck. Is it on? If so then something is running and causing that stoppage. What size of storage drive? SSD or hard drive? Did you install something last week? Are you using a anti-virus program?

 

I haven't noticed the hard drive light. And ill check in to that

its new laptop so i think its SSD .

I have installed some windows updates .

And yes im using mcafee antivirus programme and its updated

 

yess my hard drive bulb is on when my computer get stuck

 

I don't have win8 but you should be able to find out what is running. In win 7 it's rt mouse on task bar and Click the "Task Manager" option. You can look there to see if any odd program is running. Some virus's mask themselves so that they do not show up there.

And this: Bring up the Windows Task Manager. Click on the Processes tab. Click on the CPU table heading so that the processes are sorted by CPU usage (you might have to do this twice so that it's sorted in descending order). Now whenever a process kicks in, it will shoot to the top of the list, and you can see what corresponds to the disk hits. Then Google the process name to find out more.