By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
"Recently, my HP laptop keeps freezing randomly and not responding in Windows 10. Is there any way to make my PC work smoothly as normal?"
Laptop not responding is a common trouble for many Windows 10 users. When the laptop freezes and stops responding, it's suggested to wait for responding firstly. If the Windows 10 laptop still keeps freezing after a while, you can try to hard restart it. Then it's time to fix your Windows 10 laptop keeps freezing and not responding issue to avoid it occurring again. Now, we will walk you through 5 effective workarounds below.
Running programs can eat up computer resources easily. When too many programs are opened at the same time, the Windows 10 laptop will be low on system resources and then run slowly, sometimes even freeze. So, it's recommended to just launch several programs or only one application at one time.
Driver is the communication medium between hardware and the system, which can make your Windows 10 laptop freeze sometimes if it is outdated or not compatible with the OS. You can head to Device Manager to update device drivers conveniently.
Step 1: Right-click This PC, choose Manage and the Computer Management window will be shown.
Step 2: Click Device Manager and locate to a device. Then right-click the device and select Update driver.
Insufficient disk space can cause Windows 10 crawling or freezing if worse, especially when the disk is installed with the OS. When there is no enough space left in the system disk usually C drive, you can manually delete unneeded files as well as uninstall unnecessary applications or use Disk Cleanup to release some disk space. Besides, it's also a worth-considering choice to free up disk space on C drive by using the professional tool named iSunshare System Genius. As the Windows Cleaner for junk and Registry, iSunshare System Genius cleans up the system disk deeply and thoroughly, which makes the disk space be released as much as possible.
Tutorial on using System Genius
Step 1: Install and run iSunshare System Genius on your Windows 10 laptop.
Step 2: Use Clean All function to scan out all junk files and invalid Registry entries.
Step 3: All the scanned out items will be selected by default and you can simply hit Clean to wipe them from the system drive.
Corrupted or missed system file is one of the reasons for the issue Windows 10 laptop keeps freezing and not responding. Luckily, Windows provides the handy tool-System File Checker to help to solve this problem and here are the detailed steps.
Step 1: Run Command Prompt as an Admin.
Step 2: Type sfc /scannow in the Command Prompt and press Enter to execute the command.
Step 3: Wait for Windows to find and repair the corrupted system files. At last, reboot your Windows 10 laptop to see whether it works normally.
The 4 ways above don't help to completely fix your freezing and unresponsive Windows 10 laptop? At this time, you might need to restore Windows 10 with System Restore function if you have ever created a system restore point. Before you apply this way, you have to back up important files in case of data loss caused by something wrong and keep your needed applications in mind because the system will be restored to the previous state that does not include the programs installed after the system restore point. For how to restore Windows 10 with System Restore, you can refer to here.
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