Satellite P10 keeps freezing up

Hi I need some help, my Satellite P10 series keeps constantly crashing over recent weeks. I have run a defrag, and error checked the laptop. I've also deleted a lot of files to free up space, and im not sure what to do.
The majority of the times it crashes, it just freezes up, sometimes i leave it a moment-in case its just a 'normal' moment that the laptops having, but it is just frozen! I have to shut it down, and obviously i keep losing data due to this!
Can someone help me out?
Side6

Hello Side
It will be interesting to know if you have noticed after which handling notebook freezes. In which moment the unit freezes?
It can be caused by connecting some external device (like in my case) or maybe starting some application while in background the CPU is on the limit. Is any antivir application installed and active?
Try to end some useless processes in device manager and observe what happen.

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