John

Thanks Lang. By browse I mean opening root drive C: or any of the subfolders
in C: using windows explorer which I trigger using "Run" tool in the Startup
menu. I had not run chkdsk before upgrading but I did run repair using VISTA
DVD. Anyway, I will run chkdsk as advised and post the results.

"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "John" <netconsul@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi
>>
>> I upgraded my windows XP pro to VISTA ultimate and been facing very
>> irritating problems.
>>
>> 1. Every now and then, a popup window appears with message "windows
>> modules
>> installer stopped working and was closed" and this happens when I am
>> running
>> windows update. Following this message, windows update seems to have
>> stopped
>> though the windows update window shows "installing updates".
>>
>> 2. Whenever I try to open control panel, it crashes windows explorer and
>> control panel never opens.
>>
>> Unless I can fix the above two problems, transition to VISTA will be
>> regretful and I will move back to XP.
>>
>>
>> John
>>
>
>
> I saw your other post about getting BSOD's when you try to "browse" from
> the run window. Not sure what you mean by "browse"... are you opening a
> cmd window or what? Well, regardless, from that problem and the above
> problems sounds to me like you either have a hw issue or the Vista upgrade
> choked on something.
>
> Did you run a chkdsk before you upgraded to Vista? If not, I would suggest
> running a chkdsk now. Open a cmd window with run as administrator and run
> chkdsk without any parameters. If it finds any problems it will tell you.
> If chkdsk doesn't find any problems, you may want to try running a repair
> by booting from the Vista DVD and selecting repair (not sure where,
> exactly, the repair choice is...)
>
> Lang