Vista Hanging At Least 5 Times A Day

[Guest Mr Baracuda]

the vista programmers should be hanged

 

 

 

"PG" wrote in message

 

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> I have posted in some detail on this issue here last week

 

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> I actually have more information now.

 

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> 1. As I probably described last week, the eventual or creeping system hang

 

> begins with one application going non-responsive. Activating another

 

> application window, either by task bar or by direct clicking, makes that

 

> application nonresponsive. Then clicking on another application makes

 

> that nonresponse. Often clicking on the Start menu makes it appear and

 

> then lock, or sometimes it does not appear at all.

 

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> 2. The multi-application (system?) hang (all showing "not responding")

 

> does never involves a total freeze on things.

 

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> a) The network interrupt (?) continues to work: when in IE that is

 

> connected to a video stream with a Flash/WMP plugin, while the video may

 

> freeze, the audio continues to play and for a long time.

 

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> b) The mouse input interrupt continues to work. The mouse pointer can be

 

> moved. A click will have no effect, but the cursor moves.

 

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> This is not due to failing hardware or screwed system software: Windows

 

> Memory Diagnostic has been done quite a few times in the last months and

 

> reports the RAM is good. chkdsk /r has likewise been done several times

 

> and reports clean since the last time two or months ago it found some

 

> screwed indexes. Moreover, the hard disk manufacturer's own disk test

 

> tools are showing pass/green (Seagate Tools for Windows and DOS), although

 

> the disks probably have 13,000 +/- 1500 hours of use (that applies to the

 

> notebook as well). SFC /scannow finds only one unrepairable, non-critical

 

> file ('azroleui.dll.mui') this file has been effed up for months, well

 

> before the frequent system hangs. Registry cleaners (Reg First Aid Plat

 

> and Crap Cleaner) have been used. I recently Defragglered the drives it

 

> had not been done in 5-6 months, and yes, Windows defragger had been

 

> turned off. The cooling system fan/heat sink was changed a couple of

 

> months ago and Everest Ultimate has been reliable in reporting both CPU

 

> and disk drives' temperatures, with a dramatic average temp decrease after

 

> cooling fan/sink replacement. Temperature is not a problem. Driver

 

> software has been updated, upgraded, and re-installed for just about every

 

> device (video, wireless and ethernet adapter, sound, keyboard "quick

 

> keys", multi-mem card reader). You name the diagnostic tool and test, and

 

> just about every orifice has been checked on this Vista.

 

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> In the past, I would not see Vista hang at all even 1 time in a month.

 

> And now it happens at least 5 times a day. It always requires the power

 

> button being pressed to restart.

 

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> Why it is doing this is still a mystery. What have I not considered or

 

> done?

 

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