MBP freezes when doing too much and cmd-tabbing

My MBP sometimes freezes when I am doing a bunch of stuff on my laptop and then I cmd-tab to another application. When I say my laptop freezes, I mean that the system is frozen, keyboard input does not work, but moving the mouse DOES work (even though clicking on anything doesn't do anything.) I have to do a hard reset to get out of this, meaning I press and hold on the power button until the computer shuts down.
Any suggestions as to how I can fix this? I've encountered this numerous times, typically once a week usually. It actually seems like it happens during times when I am cmd-tabbing very rapidly (i.e. when doing web development, I will cmd-tab to my browser, refresh, cmd-tab to my text editor, etc. but how can this freeze my powerful system?! I only typically use about 1.5 GB of the RAM).
Thanks in advance!

If there any pattern to what applications you have open when you get the freezing? You will probably find it's an application rather than the application switcher itself. Also, check your Dashboard widgets. If you are using 3rd party widgets try closing them and see if the problem goes away.
You can also try deleting your Finder preferences by dragging the file…
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
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