Computer freezing problems vista

Many thanks. A couple weeks later the plumbers and carpenters are done and I return to set her office back up. In fact, not only is the internet down but the computer locks up within a minute or so of booting up.

After a half dozen reboots I decide to go back to square one and double check all my connections. Layer one, networking techs know, is the cause of so many problems. I quickly find … drum roll, please … an ethernet cable is connected to two of the four modem ports.

Oddly, the indicator lights at the modem ports for both ends were flashing green, ie, normal. Everything worked perfectly. In my defense, the lighting in the room was dim, and the cable went through a hole in the back of a cabinet. Too quickly. To summarize: Start over. Tear down the system as much as possible. Remove printers, phones, cams, etc. Connect one thing at a time until something breaks.

Research and resolve that last thing you connected. Wow Steve, I really appreciate your insightful and detailed comment! It goes to show you how sometimes you really need to troubleshoot everything you can think of to find the solution. Thanks Tyler for sharing. Thanks for the valuable advice, recently just after changing the paste on the cpu, the computer is a bit worse for me. I will try a few of your methods. Its really great and very informative post. These are very common problem for many people.

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Then Clean and tweak services In services stop and disable all of the below just to get them out of the way for now for trouble shooting purposes.

Nothing is un-installed or deleted only disabled from running! They can be put back anytime later but I would not, as none of them are needed by most home users and very few business users. Now in this case we disabling for trouble shooting purposes. Special note. If you are going to pick and choose then be aware that the small amount of RAM and CPU cycles of each one individually is not significant but as a group it is!

So if you need most of them or just think you do because you don't then just as well enable them all! Do not disable Wireless Zero configuration on a Laptop. Has nothing to do with other wireless hardware like wireless routers etc. In short if this computer has a CAT 5 or 6 cable and no ability to connect wirelessly if that cable is unplugged, then you can disable Wireless Zero configuration. This is not to be confused with Wired Auto Config do not disable that!

Hey Mike, is it okay if I run those programs in your last post in safe mode? My computer is freezing a lot in regular mode today. Even prefered! Ok, I did everything in your last post. I'll keep you updated and thanks again! It just froze again. Moderator Edit: Note member Roximo has deleted many previous posts here These blank posts have now been fully removed from the thread Roximo as you know how to Edit, do not double post any more! OK look at Event logs, is there anything there in relation to the freezes?

More advanced cleanups, the cleaner the system the better chance to highlight the cause of this problem. Choose Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files and click OK.

Type in the find box file not found and hit enter and delete all lines that have file not found. When you reach the bottom the go back to top and click the first entry under The Everything Tab to begin the search from that point and search again in case any were missed.

After the file not found search scroll back to the top and highlight the very first entry so you are searching from the top and click Find and search for anything you want, if needed. Then look carefully through all the Everything entries and delete anything that you may have had but uninstalled and thought were gone. If you are sure delete these also. Then click Extra stuff again select all Red lines. Then click back to Malware hunting and Click the Item fixer again and remove these.

Same as already said on AutoRuns stuff that was assumed to be needed but you do not have. None of these items can run as the file is missing so most of the improvement you may see comes as a quicker startup as windows no longer searches or tries to load some of these.

But some have noticed a faster shutdown also. Reboot and recheck with both AutoRuns and RunScanner. Let me know the results of this. Now that you are clean of Malware we will now attempt to find the cause of this issue. How often do these incidents occur now? And is there anyway to for sure cause them related to a program etc? Boot to the Advanced Boot Menu location of Safe Mode and choose Enable Low Resolution Mode, the video will not be good but if it don't happen here it is a sign that it has to do with the Video, likely a driver.

Here are the results of the event log viewer for the past 2 days:. The long and short of it is to make sure Vista has the physical resources and files needed to execute your tasks.

The first step should be to make sure you have installed the most recent Microsoft updates for Vista. Many of the earlier critical updates were designed to stop Vista freezing problems.

If Vista keeps freezing even though it is up to date, your next action should be to ensure there is adequate memory to accommodate your computing needs. Even the most casual computer user will require in excess of 1 GB of memory for a pleasant computing experience on Vista.