Hi Rick,

I use Windows Home Premium 32-bit as well. I was having problems early on and decided to deactivate the User Account Control (UAC). It sounds like this could be what's happening to your computer. The UAC is responsible for popping up and asking "do you want to run this program", etc. It could be that there's a hidden pop-up asking for permission to write to the disk and nothing can happen until you click OK. Because it's hidden, though, it cannot be clicked and so the system hangs. BIAB creates temporary undo files and these need to be written to the hard drive. This would explain why the system hangs after modifying things.

What I suggest is to go into Control Panel | User Accounts | Turn User Account Control On of Off. Windows will tell you it's not safe doing this because the UAC is protection against something unknown writing to your hard drive. Since I run a separate antivirus scanner, I didn't worry about having UAC off. I haven't had a problem in over 2 years of no UAC.

Anyway, it's something that I'd try. If the problem persists, turn UAC back on.

Let me know what happens. I'm curious.

All the best,
Noel

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