Acer Laptop Freeze-up

Hi,

First time poster so please be gentle.

I have what I assume are startup problems with my Acer Aspire 6530 laptop. I'm running Vista HP 32 with 4g RAM. My machine freezes everytime I start it up at anything between 5 and 20 minutes. I've removed everything from "selective Start-up" apart from MS Windows programs and the same for "services" apart from Ad-Aware and it still freezes.

Any ideas as running a cool Laptop in Safe Mode with networking is doing my head in.

Thanks.

Download and make a full, updated scan with malwarebytes. Get the free version and run a scan once a week, even after this problem is solved
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Make a full updated scan with your antivirus

If it runs in safe mode, its software and not expensive hardware.

Hi thanks for that,

Downloaded in safe mode and run full scan without problem but no infection found. Any other ideas?:huh:

OK runs in Safe Mode, try with anti virus turned off and all the other malware stuff. If you do not feel safe, stay off the net duing the test.
To be sure that you tested properly, before, try this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135