Thanks for your response and these resources.
In the "event viewer" I find one or more "critical" events every day. They
are all about "boot performance and monitoring." Event ID 100. I'm not sure
if this is what I'm looking for or not.
"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bob Hansen wrote: Quote:
>>
>> 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.Thansk
>> 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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