My Dell desktop locks up every day at 12 noon. If I hibernate 5
minutes ahead and come 1 hour later it still freezes.  Every day I
must turn off and start. How do I fix?

Did you look at your scheduled tasks?

I would look to see if there is anything questionable in there for 12:00.

Also does this behavior occur if you boot in "safe mode", this would
point to a hardware or software problem.

Mine freezes temporarily(3-5 seconds) when my anti virus starts doing
its scan. Maybe its that. Definatly sounds like something thats
scheduled at 12:00.

I have eliminated the scheduled tasks as a cause in the past.  Nothing
has been scheduled for 12:00PM.I have deleted an action sched for
12:00 AM.  Lets see if that works tomrrow. The following day I'll in
the 'Safe Mode'

Thanks

Gromax-ga

problem solved.  I had a vestigial P-Quest imaging program with its
own scheduler. I found it active in a process check after 12:00 P.M.

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