Vista - Repair/reinstall Vista 64

Hi,

My computer freezes from time to time and I think I tried everything to
locate what the problem could be.

The event logs show nothing, I ran a memory test with no problem, (I
have 4Gb), I checked my drive and had no problems.
All my drivers are up to date and I have all the latest updates/service
packs.

So my last hope is to re-install Vista.

Are there any easy steps to re-install Vista? Or do I have to format my
machine and start from scratch? I don't want to re-install office and so on.

Thanks

Simon

Hello Simon,
If your going to re-install Vista, then it's always better to do a clean install with a full format first. You will get much better results.
As for the freezing, have you checked your temperatures ?.
Post your results and let us know how you got on, thanks.
Good luck.

>How do I check the temperature? Do I need a third party app for that?
In any case windows sometime freezes when I 'wake it' up and the machine
hasn't been running all night.

I have been told Aero could be the real problem ... I might change that
theme and see what happens.

Simon

Download SpeedFan here and it will tell you your temps.
If it does it coming out of sleep mode then i doubt it's temp related.
It could be Aero causing the problem, disable it and try.
Also is your Bios up to date ?.


Download SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer

Have you checked it's not caused by programs running in the background?
Norton AntiVirus ect.
I recently had the same problem, and when I disabled Skype the problem
disappeared!


"Simon" <bad@xxxxxx> wrote
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MAT wrote:I have Skype installed, I will try and disable it to see if that helps.
My AV is Avast, (free).

Apart from those I don't really have anything too fancy running in the
background.

Simon

stoneys-nutz wrote:I will try speedfan to see what it says, but like you say, I don't think
it is the problem.

My Bios is up to date.

Simon

On 2009/08/03 09:11 AM, Simon wrote:Well, I removed Avast, Skype and Aero ... and it froze again this
morning. I will install AV
I am still sure that it has something to do with the software.

Everything worked flawlessly until the 02/07 when I installed SP1.
Installing that service pack caused office, IE8 and a few others to
download a bunch of updates of their own.
So it is a bit hard to pinpoint what the problem is.

Before I format my PC I am downloading Windows 7 Ultimate in the small
hope that this will fix the problem.

One last thing, I have a trust keyboard/mouse that does not have Vista
drivers, (http://www.trust.com/products/product.aspx?artnr=12738), could
that also be the problem?

Simon

If you are using "Trust" drivers, go to device manager and un-install, reboot windows and let Vista install the generic drivers, this way you can eliminate the keyboard and mouse software.
Also go to search and type "msconfig" enter, open startup tab and take a look there and see if there is anything you can do without at startup, (remember a program can be started if needed manually), also look in services, check the "hide all Microsoft box" and look there at what you have running, turn off anything you don't need or are using.
Good luck.