IDE freezes during runtime

Some weeks ago I installed Netbeans 8.2 on a Windows 10 computer.

As soon as I opened the IDE and I tried to open an existing project, it froze completely. The only way I could stop it was by killing its process.

The freezing happens very often, mostly during run-time, while writing code (in this case, the not saved code is lost), but also when trying to create a new project (File -> New Project). 

System Info:
Product Version = NetBeans IDE 8.2 (Build 201609300101) (#5fd841261bf9)
Operating System = Windows 10 version 10.0 running on amd64
Java; VM; Vendor = 1.8.0_171; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.171-b11; Oracle Corporation
Runtime = Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_171-b11
Java Home = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_171\jre
System Locale; Encoding = en_US (nb); Cp1252
Current Directory = C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.2
User Directory = \AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.2
Cache Directory = \AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\8.2