freezes as in how frozen. can you start other applications? does Ctrl-Alt-Del work? can you visit web sites? which antivirus program do you have? have you run it recently?
Herb...
I'll be downloading a file -say its halo demo- and it will just stop after a few seconds, it will be fine then in 5 seconds after i stop it freezes

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