Win 7 Pro 64 Bit Laptop Freezes for Minutes at Time

Have already been through anti-virus process with WTT. Thanks.

Post a link to the malware thread please.

Also provide some information, you gave us none.

Computer make and full model number

Operating System

32 or 64 bit

What are you doing when it freezes.

What have you tried as far as fixing it or figuring out what is happening?

Link to previous topic in Virus and Spyware Removal forum where help was being provided by Ken.

http://forums.whatthetech.com/index.php?showtopic=130028&page=2

The topic there was closed on 1st Oct due to inactivity

HP EliteBook 840 G1 running Win 7 Pro SP1 64 Bit

Per last entry in malware forum, uninstalled KB3022345.

Running sfc again to see if it's any better.

Laptop takes a long time to return control to the operator after booting. Also, it sometimes just goes to sleep, not responding in reasonable amount of time to user input, e.g., launching Chrome.

Am now running Avast's free virus protection.

Now wondering if the problem has to do with hibernation and/or going to screen saver during inactivity.

Laptop is now stuck at screen saver, after I launched sfc a few minutes ago.

And now I have control again. Weird.

Only way to keep the laptop responsive is to boot it in Safe Mode with Networking.

sfc/scannow didn't seem to fix anything.

What now?