# all my browser windows keep freezing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-my-browser-windows-keep-freezing/207270>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 13, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-my-browser-windows-keep-freezing/207270 "2003-10-13T22:10:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-my-browser-windows-keep-freezing/207270/1 "2003-10-13T22:10:52Z")

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my brother installed a new harddrive yesterday and put my old one in as a slave harddrive. he reinstalled XP Pro. NOw alot of my windows are freezing all the time, does anyone have any clues as to why this might be happening?

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-my-browser-windows-keep-freezing/207270/2 "2003-10-13T22:46:03Z")

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What kind of computer is it?

Before he put it in did he turn off any & all Bios boot protections?

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-my-browser-windows-keep-freezing/207270/3 "2003-10-13T23:41:56Z")

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its a homemade computer. Athlon 1200, 256 MB DDR Ram, XP Pro.

I dont think its any of that stuff though because this never happened before he put in a new harddrive.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-my-browser-windows-keep-freezing/207270/4 "2003-10-14T15:28:07Z")

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Thats the point, the bios thinks that the old HD is still there if you didn’t turn off the protections, so it’s using the boot sectors it created for it.