Vista - Long blackouts / screen freezing while starting a game or minimizing it.

How do I uninstall old ones? Where should I look? (Dont mess with graphics/sound drivers at all really, updated before without deleting old ones.))

I've searched my comp. and I don't see anything related to drivers or nvidia, besides nVidia properties.

You can try to update the drivers without un-installing the old ones and 99 times out of 100 it will work, but as you are having issues it may be better to un-install the old ones first. You will need a couple of bits of software first, both are free, the links are below.

Go to your control panel and un-install your video drivers.

Then go to start, Admin tools, and click on system configuration, go to boot tab and click on safe boot, click apply and reboot.

You are now in safe mode, use the driver sweeper to clean any files left by the un-install.

Use Ccleaner to clean registry, (back up your registry when prompted)

Open system config and uncheck safe boot, click apply and reboot.

Install your new drivers.

Please post your results.


Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

CCleaner - Download

Guru3D - Driver Sweeper

Same problem =[

OK, lets try somthing different, go to,
start,
administrative tools,
system configuration,
click on startup tab and take a screenshot and post, or list all the items there.

It will look like this.



We need to do this because you now have the latest video drivers, a good CPU, and 4Gig of ram, you should not be getting long delays, if you have a lot of 3rd party programs running in the back ground this will slow the system down, so, lets take a look.

An after thought really, when you finish playing a game and press exit, how long does it take to go back to the desk top ?.

Same as minimizing/starting, around 15-30 seconds.

You really need to find what model number your pc is so you can update all your drivers. Look all over the case and if you've still got it the box it came in or the manaul for your pc and see if you can find it. It should be something simple, for example:

Dell 1909