Windows 7 Frequent System Freezing Issues on Windows 7: Seeking Solutions

System Freezes with Win 7 32 bit

Hello:
MY OS: 32 bit Dell Dimension 8400 single core 3.4 ghz with hyper threading and a 925 chipset. 4 gb ram, NVIDIA 6800 w/256 ram, Gig ethernet card. Always defraged, no viruses and spyware protected etc...

I too am experiencing the system lagging at all times. When I select a program or try to go to my "Favorites" listings, I can hear my CPU fan spinning faster then slowing down...once it slows down, I'm able to continue on but not until then.

Almost acts like not enough memory is installed even though I have 4gigs installed...I know it only recognizes 3 gig on a 32 bit system.

What really made me mad was when I started with a clean install and it took over 2 hrs to load Win 7 as the OS would not recognize my NIC card and was unable to download any updates from on-line. Therefore...my system ran VERY slow and it took another hour to get the ethernet drivers loaded.

Now it's just a matter of the OS taking it's sweet time to run the simplest program. All programs are recognized and no other major problems.

Hopefully these are all just bug fixes and if so...I'll buy the new OS when it goes on sale...if not...I'm going back to Vista Ultimate.

Any advice appreciated...