Could you provide us with your system specs (system make and model, processor, RAM, hard drive, video card, etc). If you don't know this info, you can find it with this free download:
http://www.gtopala.com/index.htmlAlso, please take a look at your Event Viewer. To do this, go to Start and type in "eventvwr.msc" (without the quotes) and press Enter. Click on the + sign by Windows logs, then click on both the Application and System logfiles. Please note any errors that you see.
Finally, please go to Start and type in "perfmon.msc" (without the quotes) and then press Enter. Click on the Reliability Monitor and let us know what errors show up there.