Bob Hansen wrote:
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> Hello Group,
> This install (home premium) was an overwrite of XP 6 months ago or so. I
> have a 3.2 GHZ dual core, 2 gigs ram, and a 256 mb video card.
> I'm having a problem with programs not responding when opening, closing
> or doing almost any operation. It will even crash while renaming a file.
> Even when not crashing, programs are slow to open. When I first boot up,
> Word 2007 takes 30 seconds to be ready to use. Mail opens not responding
> every time and several other programs do as well.
> I do disk cleanup twice a week or so and defrag runs once a month.
> Any help in getting this problem cleared up will be appreciated.
> Bob
This sounds like hardware problems to me, but it could be a driver
issue. What changed between the time things worked and the time they didn't?
Try some of Vista's built-in troubleshooting tools:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...agnostics.mspx
Event Viewer How To (TechNet) -
http://tinyurl.com/2jejzc
To see if Vista itself detects a problem:
Control Panel
System and Maintenance
Performance information and tools
Advanced tools in left pane
Start > All Programs > Maintenance > Problem Reports and Solutions >
View Problem History
And just to round things off, general hardware troubleshooting:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot
Malke
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