If anyone has any thoughts on my Micro Freezes I'm all ears.
I had an issue with screen freezing a number of years ago, John. A little different to yours in that it started happening on all programs, not just the one. The screen would freeze for about 2 seconds, then continue as normal, but very annoying. After a few days I noticed they were very regular, in fact, every 60 seconds. The only program I'd recently introduced to the PC was when I had started backing up files with a Western Digital External HDD.
To cut a long story short, on each backup, WD was installing its own WD Smartware onto my PC. I found that if I uninstalled it after each backup, the freezing would stop.
Although I never did find out why they were linked, WD have since come clean with other issues associated with their products and have issued firmware fixes for a variety of problems, including other freezing issues, forced driver disconnect/reconnections and automatic spin-down functionality after 10 minutes of PC use, even if the PC is still being used.
Steve.