To begin with, I'd suggest you to open Task manager, go to Performance and Process tabs and check the resource usage and the process(es) that is utilizing the most system resources. Click on Show process from all users (requires administrator privilege) to see all the processes running in the PC. Try killing that process (select the process and click on End Process) and then check.
If the resource usage is well below the limits, open Event Viewer and check the application logs for any error.
Kindly refer the following links for more information:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-information-event-logs-event-viewer#1TC=windows-7