The person you are talking too probably hasn't waited a year for you.

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I've had the same problem; screen freezes, comes back slowly, freezes
again, taking forever to do anything, recovering with control:alt:del
and finally an error message saying "Login process has failed to create
the security options dialog".
Days later, and after lots of aggravation, I got a blue screen of
death and that gave the game away.
It turns out that Vista was trying its best with a faulty power supply
that was shorting across a damaged lead.
I took off the shorting connector and all's well, Vista is back
perfectly.

I thought it would be easy to tell whether a problem is hardware or
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I just thought I'd put in my two cents worth... I have been bugged by
this problem ever since I enabled my Sidebar in my Windows Gadgets in
Vista. I tried the chkdsk routine and it seemed to solve the problem
once. Then it came back and I got to thinking, the problem seemed to
coincide with my turning on the sidebar so why not turn it off and see
if that's it. So I did and haven't had a problem yet - and my computer
is running a lot faster! (of course it's only been 1 day but I think
that must have been it.)

My theory is that when I turned on the current weather feature which
requires a live internet connection to continuously update the weather,
it caused the problem when it could not connect (for reason's unrelated,
I have to switch my ethernet chord on my laptop rather frequently to
connect to two different networks and if I don't do an Ipconfig /renew
I'm sure it just sits there grinding away not able to connect).

Anyway, give it a try - it might work for you!

To disable it, goto the control panel, double-click 'Windows Sidebar...'
and uncheck 'Start Sidebar when Windows starts'

Good Luck!

Len.


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Well guys...I hope you didn't have the same fix as me where I had all of
the same issues but I knew I had not downloaded anything that could have
compromised my system. So I followed other advice...ran chkdsk, cleared
temp files, turned off superfetch, etc.... I then remembered that I had
uninstalled an expired version of an anti-virus software.
Unfortunately, sometimes they uninstall common files since I did have
more than one anti-virus installed. I booted into safe mode with
networking and uninstalled all of the anti-virus software on my system
and voila.....that's all it took. They stopped competing for files that
didn't exist and now I will re-install the ones I intend to keep using.
It sucks that some of you are installing new HDDs. Anyway, for those
who see this first...try uninstalling and reinstalling virus software.
See if it helps.
Good luck.


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