Okay, I have a DELL Windows Vista Laptop that was a gift for getting straight A’s through all of 7th grade (I’m in 8th grade now! Hahaha…). I got it near the end of 2010, so it’s only been about a year and a half, right’

Oh, and the battery has already died, so I can’t unplug it for even one second because if I do unplug it for one second… it turns off… I honestly don’t know why it died cause I don’t leave it plugged in all the time. I plug it in when it’s running low, charge it till it is full, and unplug it. Isn’t that what I should be doing’

Okay, when I get home from school, I turn on my laptop and THEN AFTER I turn it on, I go change into my PJ’s and blah blah blah WHILE it’s turning on. After it turns on and I see the desktop and stuff, I wait a few seconds before opening something up (cause it’s slow when you open something immediately after it turns on). And then I double-click on Google Chrome (I only use Google Chrome) and then boom! I wait and yet I can’t click ANYWHERE and nothing I do works. I can’t click on anything, anywhere even though ALL I did was try to open one thing.

My mom said that when that happens, I just have to hold the power button until it turns off and wait a few seconds or minutes and then turn it on again. I have to do that TOO often cause it freezes TOO often. I have a feeling that doing that is NOT really a good thing, right’

Another often time it freezes is when I open Google Chrome. I stream ONLY ONE (just one) episode that’s about an hour long (I don’t need to let it buffer cause our Charter Internet is SUPER fast) and that’s the ONLY thing I have open, but it freezes after I get through like 5-10 minutes of the video. And when I say freezes, I also mean when I can’t click anything, anywhere. I wait like 2 minutes, maybe more, but I’m still unable to do anything.

But anyways, I’m just frustrated at why everyday when I get home from school, my laptop always freezes, like in a span of… 7 hours, it freezes 1-3 times.

I’m also curious as to why the battery died out when it has not even been THAT long.

Like my mom’s had her laptop since 2008 and she left it plugged in ALL the time like 24/7 (and trust me, she uses it A LOT) and her battery lasted 3 years until it died out (just recently).

I only plugged mine when needed and it’s barely been 1 and a half (maybe less, maybe more) years yet it died. Why’

Okay, I take good care of my laptop (at least I think)! I have one of those um… what’s it called… Laptop Chill Mats or Laptop Cooling Pads’

Well, mine is this thing : http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Targus+-+Laptop+Chill+Mat+-+Black/Gray/9427042.p’id=1218103734860&skuId=9427042

I also have it set on that timer, like where if I don’t use it for more than 15 minutes (that’s the time I set it to) then it will automatically turn off the monitor or hibernate, so that saves battery power, right’

Well, any help would be greatly appreciated’