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I have a HP G61-110SA laptop purchased in Dec 2009. It runs on Win 7 Home Premium SP1. The processor is a Pentium Dual Core T4300 with a speed of 2.10 GHz. The display adapter is a Mobile Intel 4 series express chipset.
It has served me relatively well up until about a month ago. It has gotten into the habit of freezing even when all I am doing is reading my mail and the frequency of freezing has increased. Also, last week, I found out that I can no longer watch mp4 files with window media player although I have been doing this in the past (k-lite codec pack). I can still watch the files with vlc but I prefer wmp and I want to try and fix the problem.
If anybody has any ideas, I would be happy to try them out.
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Can't help with WMP.
by R. Proffitt 
- 8/11/11 11:31 AM
In Reply to: Window 7 problems by CNN80
But there are clues in your post. Tell the forum if you have been diligent about your 6 month CANNED AIR cleaning in the vents and such.
Bob
Huh
by CNN80 - 8/11/11 11:06 PM
In Reply to: Can't help with WMP. by R. Proffitt
Not to sound like a total airhead but what is the 6 month canned air cleaning about? I've never heard of it.
Laptops run hot anyway but if they get too hot strange things can happen.
Look at Bob/s advice in the Laptop Troubleshooting forum, in his "Sticky" thread here;
http://forums.cnet.com/7726-19681_102-3196452.html
Mark
Air vents
by CNN80 - 8/12/11 5:33 AM
In Reply to: Cleaning the air vents by MarkFlax
Thank you so much. I didn't know you could do that for a laptop. So I'm off to see if I can find compressed air (third world country means that some things are not readily available).
Are there any other alternatives to the canned air in case I can't find it?
Alternatives are more invasive.
by R. Proffitt - 8/12/11 10:29 AM
If you look at the full content of the sticky post linked to you see a nice addition from a book on laptop repair when you clean it without the canned air.
The reason for canned air is because it's oil free and more.
Bob
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