The phrase "computer freezes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate when a computer stops responding or becomes unresponsive. For example, "I was working on my presentation when my computer froze and I had to restart it."
But despite a few glitches, computer freezes and reboots, Ms. Grooms was satisfied.
It showed a computer screen with a picture of an hourglass, of the sort that appears when your computer freezes.
The dark truth is that you need a man every time a mouse gets caught in a trap, or a ridiculously tight lid on a jar of tomato sauce won't budge, or the computer freezes, or the light bulb on the ceiling needs changing, or a fuse blows.
Why might this be? A. If you are having problems staying connected once you log on to America Online, or if your computer freezes up 10 or 15 minutes after you connect, you may be experiencing a known software problem that has surfaced between AOL and Windows Me.
I've been hacked!My computer freezes up and crashes.
Latency is caused by slow connections and means that just when you have the Red Baron in your gun sights, your computer freezes up.
The student loaded it, and her computer froze.
If the computer froze or the VCR failed, we'd just wait for him to come home.
In informal product demonstrations after Ms. Fiorina's speech, at least two had hitches and in one case a computer froze and had to be rebooted.
"We had a computer freeze here, and our guy came in and fixed it right away like nothing happened," she said.
That can include marshaling support from government agencies and cultural organizations when a big problem turns up, like the two-day computer freeze involving the London consulate this month that sent a momentary panic through the concert industry.
