I think the problem is solved. I spend some time to look for and analyze what kind of file operation PSPad is doing and to where (folders, atributes...). The result did not surprise me... My antivirus is getting death on file operation on when the files are containing "CR" in the name... _SOLUTION:_ Just deactivate your antivirus. Do it in such way that do no allow any antivirus module to be kept loaded in the memory. Ex. my antivirus is Avast. It has an option to deactivate it for 10 minutes or some other time. But such option is not really deactivating it. The right action to take, is to deactivate it permanently and to restart the Windows. Simple "permanent" deactivation is a false and the PSPad freezing will continue. So, it is really essential to restart the whole system and do not allow the antivirus to be loaded or active even for a second.
_FYI:_ seems that the Avast is very curious to PSPad and files or shortcuts to them which contains "CR" in the name. Once I renamed all the files in my project, the freeze has gone :) Miracles... Anyway I prefered to deactivate the antivirus. And computer is faster now. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?4,64643,66383> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
