hahaha! really not my day today lol! \o/
anyway, got bored of restarting the copy/paste of those questions… tech support forms are so much quicker…
anyway… the answer is comodo firewall causing issues as the error i get is this
Event filter with query “SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA “Win32_Processor” AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99” could not be reactivated in namespace “//./root/CIMV2” because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected.
as i did write before and lost it all lol (this is my 4th attempt, i really hate ie!), this isnt the error as windows seems to hold no memory of the hang, but the above error always happens just before the system freeze… and the best cure, is, and has been to uninstall comodo firewall… unless you have a fix?
cant believe i have been at work for 40 hours, and have nearly took vista for a flying lesson with concrete boots into the ocean!
back on firefox now! 
and it works!!!
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