Re: Vista Ultimate 32 Sudden Slowdown


Hello Peter, My name is Rick and I work with the Windows Outreach Team,
and would like to help you out. I must be upfront and tell you I am not
Tech Support but I do wish to help you out. First I would like to know
some of your system specs. So if you could give me some info such as
Processor/Ram/HD size etc. then I can have a better idea of how to help
you.
Secondly re-install can be a pain, so I would run Windows Updater first
and see if anything there helps out your issue. Please get back to me
with your Specs and we shall take a look and see what can be done.
Rick

Peter Corser;1075878 Wrote:
Hi

I have Vista Ultimate 32 bit OEM (Self Installed) on a home built
desktop.
AFAIK all drivers are up to date and PC runs very well on startup.

If left for some time (usually a couple of hours or so) it suddenly
becomes
extremely slow and unresponsive. This can happen even in the middle of
working. I have a UK Network Rail Sidebar Gadget which is constantly
updating with local train times. This will always stop respondiing and
suggest that a screen saver may be running. If I go to Contol Panel I
cannot access the Performance page - if CP was closed when this
happened it
only shows a subset of (usually) 12 items - even if it had previously
been
open accessing any item becomes virtually impossible. Prior to problem
occurring the Performance Page states that there are no items causing
system
performance issues. I have never been able to access the Performance
page
once the problem has initiated!
Turning the machine off suddenly changes from very rapid to, at best,
dead
slow. I have left it shutting down for over 4 hours (when I have had to
leave the PC room to do something else) and still had to finally shut
down
via the front panel push buttons (physically shut off power). Using the
close all programs and shut down icon on the Start menu seems to
trigger a
faster initial response, but still seems to come up against a brick
wall.
Vista has never asked for a disk verification/check even though I have
forced the shut down.

Does anyone have any ideas where to start looking?

Peter
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Peter & Elizabeth Corser
Leighton Buzzard, UK


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