I have Vista Home Premium 32bit. When my PC becomes idle for different periods of time, my desktop freezes. The little blue circle doesn't move, mouse doesn't work, Ctrl, Alt, Delete doesn't work. I have to turn it off and on again to get it to work.
As long as the system stays busy with something in motion, everything is terrific. This has been going on for a couple of weeks & getting worse. H E L P!

Originally Posted by djfergy

I have Vista Home Premium 32bit. When my PC becomes idle for different periods of time, my desktop freezes. The little blue circle doesn't move, mouse doesn't work, Ctrl, Alt, Delete doesn't work. I have to turn it off and on again to get it to work.
As long as the system stays busy with something in motion, everything is terrific. This has been going on for a couple of weeks & getting worse. H E L P!

This happened with my Gateway laptop about a year and a half ago and it done that for about 6 weeks until I was advised by Gateway tech support to perform a full disc check. After I done the full disc check, the problem was completely gone! It may not work with yours, but it shouldn't hurt to try it.

Here's the Check Disc tutorial by Brink:

Check Disk - chkdsk

It took 2 to 3 hours for my computer to perform the disc check, but afterward, there was no more freezing. Before the disc check, my laptop was doing exactly what yours is doing. If I got up to go get a glass of water or something and was gone for maybe a couple of minutes and then came back to my laptop, the mouse cursor would be frozen and the blue circle was frozen and I also had to turn mine off and then back on to get it to work again. So, I know exactly what you are experiencing. I think I also had to hold the power button down for a few seconds to turn mine off as well. But, maybe the disc check as shown in the tutorial will fix it. It fixed mine.

Good luck!