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Microsoft Teams Freezes PC
I have observed that the Microsoft Teams desktop app freezes my HP laptop. This is the 3rd experience on this laptop and the laptop is newly purchased, running on Windows 10 Home edition, has a RAM of...
Sounds like laptop specs. Have you tried calls with camera off? Using background picture/blur or together more consumes more processor power and that Graphics combined with only 4GB of memory isn't a very powerful combination. It will result using your disk for more memory which usually adds up on freezing the system.
You can also try Teams settings "Disable GPU hardware acceleration" to see if it helps.
I have this problem since forever and on several different computers. I literally just bought a beast of a lenovo (64GB ram xeon processor, etc) and with essentially nothing installed and teams still bring the whole system to a grinding halt. Even after shutting it down, the environment can be unstable until I restart. I have no pending updates or anything like that, this system is pristine.