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re: Vista Locking Up? Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 2:47 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Sounds like over-heating is a possibility. Look in Event Viewer, check your fans and that its not full of dust. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 3:28 pm Posted by Charles (17 messages posted) Ok i'm in the event viewer now what do I look for, if its hardware what would I see? Also I was thinking that it might not be hardware, because the cursor still moves, but everything is freezing and from what i've seen it works perfectly in safe mode. On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 2:47 pm, MartinM wrote: > >Sounds like over-heating is a possibility. > >Look in Event Viewer, check your fans and that its not full of dust. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:05 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) Flash player can lock up a system so badly that even control alt delete takes a second to respond if it is trying to load a poorly made flash file. Streaming videos almost exclusively use a flash player to display content so it sounds like that is the problem, never found a solution that works in every case sadly. On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 1:33 pm, Charles wrote: >Hey how's it going everyone? I was wondering if someone can help me out with a problem >i'm having with Vista. After a while of working on the computer firefox or ie will >lock up the whole computer and I can't hit control alt delete or anything. I noticed >when using a flash application or watching a video it will cause the problem also. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Look for items with a red cross around the time of a freeze. Double click on the item to get details. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 12:37 pm Posted by Charles (17 messages posted) Ok when I look at that it only shows a critical error from when I powered the computer off manually. There has got to be something running on the computer that is killing my explorer.exe or some other service or process. During safemode no problems I can access the internet surf and no problems, but when its running normal the computer drags slow and then after a while and then one program will lock up then another when I click on it or minimize the window it will then lock up. Has anyone here experienced windows 7 yet, maybe i need to upgrade or something? On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm, MartinM wrote: > >Look for items with a red cross around the time of a freeze. > >Double click on the item to get details. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:44 pm Posted by NigelHH (1324 messages posted) Upgrading to Windows 7 woudl be the last thing I'd recommend. Get the Vista problem fixed first. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:14 pm Posted by Charles (17 messages posted) Hmmm so what do I do next it locks up like crazy i've turned off all of the services except for windows and turned off all startup programs that aren't windows or intel and it still keeps locking up and moving slow the event viewer doesn't show what happened. On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:44 pm, NigelHH wrote: >Upgrading to Windows 7 woudl be the last thing I'd recommend. Get the Vista problem >fixed first. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Friday, November 6, 2009 at 2:46 pm Posted by Charles (17 messages posted) Can I eliminate the fact of it being a hardware issue if i can run fine in safe mode? If that is the case it means it is some kind of driver issue or something. Is there another program that can diagnose or catch the problem when it happens. On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm, MartinM wrote: > >Look for items with a red cross around the time of a freeze. > >Double click on the item to get details. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2:42 am Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) You are right, if all's well inj Safe Mode then its 99.9% certain it is a software problem. The Event Viewer is meant to pick up problems like this, and if its showing nothing then it is likely to be an application (for what that's worth), ie Windows sees nothing amiss. Sadly I am not aware of any easier way to daignose this than by turning off everything in your startup folder and msconfig and then turning them back on one-by-one to find the culprit. You can make this task slightly less tedious by using Winpatrol, and someone cunning observed a while ago that turning on half, then half the remainder etc speeds up the process somewhat. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 9:22 am Posted by Charles (17 messages posted) Ok Im downloaded the vista services optimizer and it lead me to the performance tool in vista. I've been thinking it was something dealing with Explorer.exe and I see that it has at max around 5000 hard faults per minute, is that high or too much? On Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 2:42 am, MartinM wrote: > >You are right, if all's well inj Safe Mode then its 99.9% certain it is a software >problem. > >The Event Viewer is meant to pick up problems like this, and if its showing nothing >then it is likely to be an application (for what that's worth), ie Windows sees nothing >amiss. > >Sadly I am not aware of any easier way to daignose this than by turning off everything >in your startup folder and msconfig and then turning them back on one-by-one to find >the culprit. > >You can make this task slightly less tedious by using Winpatrol, and someone cunning >observed a while ago that turning on half, then half the remainder etc speeds up >the process somewhat. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista Locking Up? Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 12:20 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Not sure what you mean by "max around 5000 hard faults per minute" ? If its HDD faults then you've a failing HDD for sure. 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