Vista Tutorial - Not Responding !

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

Bob Hansen wrote: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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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.

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Bob Hansen wrote:Me neither. ;-) I think I'd go through the other t-shooting links I gave
you as well as Googling for the exact Event Viewer message and ID#.


Malke
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Hi Bob,

I assume that you used the upgrade version of Vista. If you did, you might
be better off performing a clean install. For instructions, please see my
post 'Clean Install Windows Vista Using Upgrade Media' in the newsgroup
'Windows Vista Installation and Setup'. Don't forget to backup your data
files first - these can then be restored afterwards. The applications
themselves can be reinstalled from the original disks.
Dwarf

"Bob Hansen" wrote:

Thanks Dwarf,
That's pretty much what I decided to do.

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