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IE7 Keeps freezing
Lang Murphy lang_mur...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Except your solution does nothing to identify possibly bad Vista drivers. Word on the street has it that there are a few of those... But I get your point... if his system crashes running Knoppix then it is, most likely, a hw problem and time

Appalling Vista
Just another geek Just_another_g...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Ok, this is what i did, start Controll panel power options Selevted the high performance option change plann settings change advanced power settings Hard Disk then i changed it so that the hard disk never turns off

Problems running Virtual PC 2007 on Vista Ultimate
For sure this time and, to my memory, at least a couple of times before, the freeze occurred when I was looking at a very large file (61MB) in Word. I had downloaded something called "Vista Product Guide.docx" from the Microscoft website, and it is while I am trying to read that file that Word 2007 freezes and

vista instalation keeps freezing !!HELP!!
I have a core 2 duo e6300 with a gigabyte 945pl-s3 motherboard. i have 2 gb of ram 512MB asus 7600gs graphics card with Nvidia it has 430 watts of power The problem is it freezes every couple of minutes... and even on reboot it sometimes freezes. i have gone into internet explorer 7 and turned off the add ons. i

Pls help, New notebook preinstalled with vista keeps freezing
I have recently upgraded to Vista Premium. While still running XP, GE worked seamlessly... loved it! No problems at all. Since the upgrade to Vista, GE is freezing and I have to End Program, or, in some cases, it freezes then crashes my system. This happens when I am running GE in Open GL mode.

vista freezing after closing my laptop
When opening an email within Outlook 2007 and deleting the message by clicking the delete button within the email, Outlook is not responding anymore. The Outlook application cannot be closed anymore, only through the taskmanager or logging on again to Vista. Does anyone have a clue if there is a solution for this?

New System - Vista Freezing
Billy Bi...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Ever since the most recent hotfix from Microsoft on 2/6/2008, my Windows Vista Home Premium has been freezing, then crashing. The screen gets pixelated with purple boxes and then everything freezes up and I have to reboot the computer.

Windows Vista Freezing
hBc h...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Hey, any idea why Windows Vista keeps freezing on me? I bought a new computer and it froze after about 30 mins of it being turned on, and it does it pretty often. The computer is showing the problem as Windows Vista. Thanks.

Vista Keeps Freezing and locking down on me.
Alias aka@masked&anonymous.cl microsoft public windows vista general titangal27 wrote: Thanks a lot for all the advice. I will be returning the laptop. And will try to buy another one with Xp instead of vista. Very wise of you. Alias.

Vista is freezing up on me...
DP nos...@nospam.com microsoft public windows vista general Is it still under warranty? If so, I'd contact Gateway. No matter whether the problem is Vista itself or something else, the computer is NOT working. The vendor needs to remedy that. When you buy a product, it should work.

windows vista freezing
steve st...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general If it is any help I would look at your power supply 450w doesnt seem adequate for what you have running in your pc -- there are no problems, just challenges "Josh B" wrote: i thought maybe this could be the case but it has 3 large fans

windows vista freezing
Chad Harris vistaneedsmuchowork.net microsoft public windows vista general HI Mschombs-- Your link didn't make your post, but as well as hdw I'd like to know if you have AV scanned and spyware scanned and done the other common sense things that might make your CPU demand more efficient? Have you defragged at all?

Vista Media Center Live TV Freezing
Bob B...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I have tried upgrading and clean installs with VISTA Home Premium and it freezes during the install time and time again. I have tried installing about 25 times with the same result. This is very frustrating.

Windows Vista Freezing
Joe J...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance Paul The problem is not with the hardware its Windows Vista...Now SP1 like thingy for Vista right now...and we have to see and wait what microsoft does abuot it. I suggest you install windows XP on your machine. and don't even

Vista Crashes every 5 minutes
Josh B Jo...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general i thought maybe this could be the case but it has 3 large fans inside it all working fine. i can let it idle for a fair while but once you start moving around it freezes... i havtn played a game on it yet so i cant imagine it is

Windows Vista Freezing
"Alexander" wrote: i got a mainboard with a nvidia 430 nforce chipset. after rolling back the automatically updated (and system freezing) drivers the system got back stable... i intent to keep that state, using the previous drivers, yet every time the windows updater comes up with new important updates,

Vista Remote Desktop locking / freezing
Jupiter Jones [MVP] jones_jupi...@hotnomail.com microsoft public windows vista general Freezing, especially on a new computer suggests a hardware problem. If the computer is new, contact the manufacturer for warranty support and possible replacement. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar

New System - Vista Freezing
In any case I can't see that the memory is at fault as I ran memtest for 10 hours without any freezes or errors. This is why I am questioning the Vista installation. regards, Tony "BigJim" wrote: I would try increasing the power to the memory chips in small increments if you can, to see it that helps.

Vista randomly freezing on Startup
Dangermouse Dangermo...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general G'day there, I'm having exactly the same problem with my Dell 9200 which is only 3 months old so will try your idea of the driver. When I did the upgrade I remember there being problems with a DVD driver so I'm hoping you're

Vista randomly freezing on Startup
Don don195...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Bob wrote: I have tried upgrading and clean installs with VISTA Home Premium and it freezes during the install time and time again. I have tried installing about 25 times with the same result. This is very frustrating.