LIbra Office freezes up constantly

Working in Libra Office, on a Dell laptop using Windows 10 and a Verbatim USB hard drive, on Documents, the application freezes up, at least 3X/hour … thnaks, neilcs

Please try resetting the user profile, sometimes solves strange issues.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
Usually it’s enough renaming/deleting the file “user/registrymodifications.xcu”, it affects all the options in Menu/Tools/Options, and the files “user/basic/dialog.xlc” and “scrip.xlc” are overwritten, additionally custom colors in “user/config/standard.soc” are lost.

When it freezes, check TaskManager. There should be only 1 x soffice.exe and 1 x soffice.bin. If there are more than 1 copy of either, that prevents you opening new documents or restarting LO.