Thank you for your reply. I have executed those steps but still no luck.
Tried to use Task Manager to "analyse the waitchain" and it says that "One or more threads of mintcoin-qt.exe are waiting to finish network I/O", not sure if that's related to the freezing...
The weirdest part is that simply nothing changed, this happened completely at random.
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Might look frozen but it is actually syncing. If you go into the mintcoin appdata and keep refreshing the folder, you will see the blkindex.dat size increasing. At least this is what is happening to some of the coin wallets I have with unresponsive behavior. Just let it be and check back after a while.
-tb-