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Vista Remote Desktop locking / freezing
nmor...@googlemail.com microsoft public windows vista general For the benefit of a future audience which may stumble across this thread... ...the solution to my SATA DVD drive freezing problems is...under Primary IDE in the bios, set to NONE not AUTO I can't be 100% this is the final solution but it's one of them.

Creative Live Cam Vista and freezing Video
Degs D...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance I have a similar problem but I have only noticed it in Explorer. The screen seems to freeze in Explorer but I can move the mouse and open other progs but then they stop and I go into ghost mode. The hard drive light shows

Windows Vista Freezing
Rock R...@nospam.net microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance "John McE" <John...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote I've just built a new computer (Athlon x2 3200 with nvidia Geforce 9600 graphics card, and installed Vista Home Premium. The system frequently locks up completely, and since CTL-ALT-DEL

Vista freezing?
SnoweyShadow SnoweySha...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance " When was the last time you did a disk cleanup and a defrag? " Jerry I did a disk clean-up probably two weeks ago, I make sure that the computer has as much few space as possible...as such a majority of my

Vista-Freezing
Peter Callison zen84...@zen.co.uk microsoft public windows vista general Hi Has anyone had Vista freezing with mouse moving but unable to open or close windows or click tabs etc. It is cured by opening Task Manager (not doing anything mind, just open it and the mouse will work again.) Strange, will add to the

POSSABLE ANWSER to Vista freezing
Joe J...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance Paul The problem is not with the hardware its Windows Vista...Now SP1 like thingy for Vista right now...and we have to see and wait what microsoft does abuot it. I suggest you install windows XP on your machine. and don't even

Expression Web keeps Freezing up in Vista
grdaman grda...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general I agree and I am trying to find out through Dell how to send it back. My computer constantly freezes up with lines in the monitor. I have to shut computer down with button on front and restart computer.

Vista Freezing
dracotonisamond dracotonisam...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance dracotonisamond if my hunch is correct it might be a driver issue or a hardware incompatibility and another thing do you mean a ati radeon 9600 and is it pci-express or agp and is it a 9600, pro, XT,

Vista freezing problems
pedros1 pedr...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general A few weeks ago, my laptop started to freeze sometimes. It typically happens when I didn't use my laptop for a moment. As long as I'm busy with the laptop, no freezing appears. Now I play iTunes constantly which makes the laptop not

Vista is freezing up on me...
Morgan Mor...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista mail Ok I will try this "Marcus L. Jackson" wrote: Try setting in up while in safe mode. Yes, thats what I am trying to do but when I click tools the program freezes "Marcus L. Jackson" wrote: You Have to set it up.

Vista freezing and random usless DVD drive appearing?
Mick Murphy MickMur...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Did you uninstall the corrupted Graphics Driver first? Remnants of the corrupted one could be the prob. "thedicemaster" wrote: my most recent "update" of a driver was my graphics card driver. this was a few days ago,and was

Vista Freezing
Chad Harris vistaneedsmuchowork.net microsoft public windows vista general HI Mschombs-- Your link didn't make your post, but as well as hdw I'd like to know if you have AV scanned and spyware scanned and done the other common sense things that might make your CPU demand more efficient? Have you defragged at all?

Vista freezing when viewing photographs
AJ A...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Now here's something else. When I try to open System Restore, an error message appears My Vista has started to freeze for no apparent reason. It will be working fine, and then all of a sudden it will completely freeze, where there is no egg

Vista freezing problems
In any case I can't see that the memory is at fault as I ran memtest for 10 hours without any freezes or errors. This is why I am questioning the Vista installation. regards, Tony "BigJim" wrote: I would try increasing the power to the memory chips in small increments if you can, to see it that helps.

windows vista freezing
Just another geek Just_another_g...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general Ok, this is what i did, start Controll panel power options Selevted the high performance option change plann settings change advanced power settings Hard Disk then i changed it so that the hard disk never turns off

Vista freezing problems
James Ja...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance Thanks for your help Shawn and Rick. Yes, I think it has something to do with what I have plugged into my computer at startup. Upon turning on my computer just now, the freeze happened. Thus, when I read your replies and

windows vista freezing
Bion a...@xx.com microsoft public windows vista general Dangermouse <Dangermo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: G'day there, I'm having exactly the same problem with my Dell 9200 which is only 3 months old so will try your idea of the driver. When I did the upgrade I remember there being problems with a DVD driver

windows vista freezing
Thomas Meyer use2...@meyerchen.net microsoft public de windows vista sonstiges ...and Marcel Brand spoke: Hallo, mein Vista (seit 1 Woche auf einem neuen Rechner vorinstalliert in Betrieb) ist zwischenzeitlich ca. 4 Mal eingefroren. [...] Hatte jemand dieses Problem auch schon und gibt es einen Lösungsvorschlag?

Vista freezing problems
Rick Rogers r...@mvps.org microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance Depends, David. If it is probably a hardware problem, then that's what I say it is. Freezing is nearly always a hardware issue, most commonly flakey ram, though on occasion it proves to be video driver related.

Vista freezing every 30 mins
Adam Albright A...@ABC.net microsoft public windows vista general On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:32:01 -0700, pedros1 <pedr...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: A few weeks ago, my laptop started to freeze sometimes. It typically happens when I didn't use my laptop for a moment. As long as I'm busy with the laptop,