Macbook pro freezes after login

I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro 15" with a Core i7 2.66GHz processor. Sometime after upgrading to Lion, I started getting the spinning beachball of death just after login. Unlike many posts about freezes on similar MacBook Pros, mine is not freezing before login, but after. I start the machine, login, and then if I try to open any application, the beachball appears and I have to do a hard shutdown with the power button. Then if I restart again, it is usually fine. I was able to fix this problem some time ago by deleting a preference file (plist) for one of my apps (I think), but the problem has surfaced again and I cannot remember how to correct this. Anyone having similar problems, please let me know if you've had any luck fixing it. I am running 10.7.3 (in fact, it seems like the problem may have resurfaced just after the update to 10.7.3, but I'm not sure.)
FYI, I have auto graphics switching off and am still experiencing this problem.

Don't worry about the auto graphics switching. Go to "Users & Groups" in system preferences. Then click on login items and removes all of them. I haven't pinned down exactly which one was causing the problem but I suspect it was one associated with my HP printer. I have verified that Dropbox and Magic Menu from StuffIt are OK to leave in the login items. Just remove what you have there and add them back in one at time (if you can't live without them) until it starts to give you trouble again. Let me know if this helps.

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I have a newly purchased macbook pro that came with lion, MC700, with 4GB of ram Default. I purchased CMSO8GX3M2A1333C9 from newegg to give me 8GB of ram. After installing the RAM, if i use the macbook for extneded periods of time the screen will hardlock, graphics artifacting is seen on screen and it beeps, causing me to hard shut down the unit. This is most noticeable when using Youtube HD or watching a DVD movie. I ran apple hardware diagnostics and it says everything is fine, I also ran memtest overnight with no errors. Thinking this might be a corrupt lion install i reinstalled clean and still get the issue. I bootcamped windows 7 x64 onto the unit and it will BSOD and hardlock just like lion would. I used the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool and it said no errors. My return time has expired for both the macbook (purchased at a best buy) and the RAM (from newegg). I know i can contact corsair but I dont know if that will even help, any ideas? My system is up to date with the newest updates as well.

I forgot to put that in the OP, when putting back the 4gb stock it works fine, but doesnt solve my issue. THe ram tests fine, is the MBP just that picky? I know i can RMA with corsair but there really isnt anything wrong with said ram its like its overheating when the new ram is put in

Macbook Pro freezes after "Starting automatic backup"

I'm having problems with my MacBook Pro often freezing when it cannot connect to TimeMachine (ie when I am out of the office).
Usually I get the following in the console logs:
15/11/12 4:13:30.950 PM com.apple.backupd[10512]: Starting automatic backup
15/11/12 4:13:31.000 PM kernel[0]: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1352956413
15/11/12 4:13:32.612 PM com.apple.backupd[10512]: Backup failed with error: 19
which is fine, I don't expect it to backup without a TM present. However a couple of times a day I get:
15/11/12 5:14:07.668 PM com.apple.backupd[11400]: Starting automatic backup
Then all apps lock up, I cannot "force quit" anything, start terminal or shutdown without holding the power button down. The next line in the console log is then:
15/11/12 5:32:31.000 PM bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1352961151 0
Nothing between the "Starting automated backup" and the reboot. I've checked the rest of the logs and found nothing suspicious in there.
Any ideas where to start looking for a solution to this? My first guess would be the snapshot is failing but I'm not sure how I can test this.
Robyn

I also have problems, and freezes. But I know where it comes from.
Since 10.6.3, temperature is far higher than on 10.6.2. And that's not due to CPU charge (ActivityMonitor). But iStatpro shows that the GPU is hot too (even idle) !
So I suppose that a background task is charging the GPU (OpenCL related ?).
I use SMCFanControl to speed up fans, but that's just a temporary fix. If Apple does not fix this quickly, I will downgrade to 10.6.2.

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