Odd performance issue - hang/lockup for no apparent reason

[Guest]

Im experiencing a general slowness and occasional lockup that I cant figure
out.
Ive tried it on 2 different motherboards (one intel one nforce3) and they
seem to have the same issue.

What happens is this: At some point any given window may not do anything
when clicked (i.e. a control panel icon or link in IE etc). When this
happens you cannot click anything else, including the start button until it
decides to work. The window will often go to (not responding) for a while
too.

During this time not even CTRL ALT DEL or CTRL SHIFT ESC will do anything.

The computer also will not restart or shut down even if you do manage to get
the start menu to come up.

I *think* but cant be positive it is caused by either yahoo messenger or the
CA free AV trial we get for beta 2 subscribers.
Disabling those apps from starting up doesnt help though.

I've also tried turning off aero interface but it does the same thing. (even
had the whole screen black out once because of this issue)

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem ... only worse.

For me, the entire system freezes for quite some time (> 2-3 minutes) No
mouse, keyboard or any input whatsoever. Booting into Vista takes up to 10
(!!) minutes.

I expect a somewhat slower experience because this machine is an old Athlon
XP 2000+ But it have 1.25 GB memory and an FX 5200 w/128MB VRAM.

What does surprise me is that, when I started, I experienced the Areo Glass
at 1280x1024, yet now it will only give me Areo Express at that resolution.

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I am exeriencing the same issue. I have no idea why its happening, but it
just started happening all the sudden today. Used vista for 5 days and was
working great until this started all the sudden.

I restarted in safe mode however, and the problem doesent happen.

 

[Yuriy Shkolnikov [MSFT]]

If you have an antivirus installed, can you try disabling it or removing it
and see if that fixes the problem?