For the past few months (at least), Minecraft crashes when I open a chest, my inventory or try to craft something. I'm playing on a Dell laptop (Latitude E6400) Intel Core2Duo CPU P8700 2.53GHz with 4 GB RAM installed (64 bit operating system) updated to Windows10 when I was more or less forced to a couple years ago.

I used to be able to play fine but for the past 2 or 3 months the game crashing has made it virtually impossible to play. If i just wander around the world (mining blocks, etc), i have no issues, when i open a chest to move items around (sometimes immediately, sometimes after 10 seconds or so), the game freezes and i have to close the window and restart the game. Sometimes I lose items in the middle of crafting, but usually (I'd guess 90% of the time) I do not lose items, the game just freezes. When I restart, sometimes my character appears where I was 20 seconds before where I was when the game froze.

I'm aware my laptop is kind of old, but all other programs run fine. If this issue is due to my laptop, can you suggest a workaround? It is VERY frustrating (to say the least) to play Minecraft when it constantly freezes when I'm in a chest or crafting something.

Also, something else that may or may not be related...when i release the 'W' key, my character keeps walking (but I can still turn right or left) for 2-5 seconds. This makes walking in the Nether very dangerous!

Thank you for any help you can provide me. Please, please help me play this amazing game again.