I'm new to this forum so please bear with me.. I recently went to Vista
x64 and bought a new computer... Everything was fine till about 3 weeks
ago... While I work on the computer, nothing out of the ordinary
happens... (No problems)... when I walk away for awhile and come back, I
click on a shortcut and the computer Freezes... I have to shut down the
system to get out of it... Simply put; Vista Randomly Freezes... I've
checked the logs to no Avail... I'm getting real irritated by this and I
was hoping that someone might have a clue to what is happening.. !! ??
Please advise, and I appreciate the time your taking... TIA.. BigT


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BigT2009

BigT2009 wrote:


I'm new to this forum so please bear with me.. I recently went to Vista
x64 and bought a new computer... Everything was fine till about 3 weeks
ago... While I work on the computer, nothing out of the ordinary
happens... (No problems)... when I walk away for awhile and come back, I
click on a shortcut and the computer Freezes... I have to shut down the
system to get out of it... Simply put; Vista Randomly Freezes... I've
checked the logs to no Avail... I'm getting real irritated by this and I
was hoping that someone might have a clue to what is happening.. !! ??
Please advise, and I appreciate the time your taking... TIA.. BigT

Do the lockups only happen when you click on a shortcut or do they happen
truly randomly - when you are doing unrelated things?

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

The Freezing happens when the computer has been sitting idle for about
10 minutes.. The only time it freezes while I'm doing something, is when
I'm watching a video... Beats me.. I've tried uninstalling various
programs to see they were responsible.. No Avail.. Thanks for your time
and concern... BigT


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BigT2009

BigT2009 wrote:


The Freezing happens when the computer has been sitting idle for about
10 minutes.. The only time it freezes while I'm doing something, is when
I'm watching a video... Beats me.. I've tried uninstalling various
programs to see they were responsible.. No Avail.. Thanks for your time
and concern... BigT


My reason for asking you what you are doing and if it is truly random or
always does this when you do the same thing is in order to try and narrow
down whether this is hardware or software. Troubleshooting must be
systematic. Just uninstalling programs willy-nilly isn't the way to go
about it, especially without knowing if this is even a software issue.

With what program are you watching a video? The First Question Of
Troubleshooting: If the problem is new, what changed between the time
things worked and the time they didn't?

Install any codecs? Update any drivers, especially video drivers? Is this a
desktop or a laptop?

There is too much missing information for me to give you a focused answer.
Try and help by providing more details.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

This problem is not new.. It started about 3 weeks ago... I've been
tolerating this for 3 weeks... Pretty much through with this post, as I
tried to back up my hard drive as I figured it was heading for worse
problems, and in the process the Hard drive crashed... Bye bye hard
drive and everything on it... 4 months of configuring the programs...
You can call it quits with this post as I'm running another computer.!!!
I don't like x64 bit OS's or Architecture.. I'm back to x86....
Thanks for the responses and if this happens again anytime soon, I'll be
back... BigT2009


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BigT2009

BigT2009 wrote:


This problem is not new.. It started about 3 weeks ago... I've been
tolerating this for 3 weeks... Pretty much through with this post, as I
tried to back up my hard drive as I figured it was heading for worse
problems, and in the process the Hard drive crashed... Bye bye hard
drive and everything on it... 4 months of configuring the programs...
You can call it quits with this post as I'm running another computer.!!!
I don't like x64 bit OS's or Architecture.. I'm back to x86....
Thanks for the responses and if this happens again anytime soon, I'll be
back... BigT2009



So the answer was bad hardware, as I originally suspected. Consider
purchasing an external hard drive and imaging software like Acronis True
Image. If you had previously imaged your drive, the "4 months of
configuring the programs" would have translated to approximately an hour
(or less) to restore to a new drive.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

Still not the definitive answer... Could have been something else... And
as a matter of fact I had Acronis as well as R-Drive Image... But both
not up to date... also two backup drives... And believe it or not, I
still lost everything... Se la vie.... BigT


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BigT2009