Computer Randomly Freezing withing past few weeks

Hi,
more recently my computer randomly will freeze up several times of the day either if I'm just sitting here doing something on it or go away for awhile to find that it has froze. Sometimes when It freezes though, everything will be frozen and unclickable, but yet the mouse will still be able to move around. Control, Alt, Delete will not work at this time either. So I then will have no choice but to turn it off and back on from the power button. If you need any more info to help acess the problem, feel free to ask.
Could use some help.
Important details:
I have a HP Pavilion Elite HPE
Operating System: Windows 7
Virus Protection: Kaspersky Internet Security 2014
Age of computer: Aprox. 5 y/o

123,
At the least, eliminating possible "trouble spots" makes it easier to find the underlying reasons that things are not working as they should.
You might spend some time staring at the Resource Monitor to see if any one or two processes are hogging the CPU or perhaps creating another type of bottleneck.
Another thing to look for:  Too many or the wrong kind of browser addons.  Some of the addons are pretty nice;  some addons can end up costing you CPU cycles while they spin and check and process whatever information they must digest.
Happy New Year 2014!
Kind Regards,
Dragon-Fur

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