Vista freeze

My vista hangs and I have to manually turn it off & restart.

What can I do to fix this? I had this happens early & just not had time to check it out.

When it freezes there is nothing pass at all.

Thank you in advance, Irma jean

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A gel to the top is almost always a hardware or hardware driver issue. Usually, the video driver. I would try using the button "Update driver" in properties in Control Panel/Device Manager/video adapter, driver tab.

If no help, try the feature "Uninstall" on right click of the camera, then use "search the hardware changes.

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