Vista freezing for no apparent reason

[AJ]

My Vista has started to freeze for no apparent reason. It will be working
fine, and then all of a sudden it will completely freeze, where there is no
egg timer, the cursor does not move, there is no hard drive activity at all
and crtl+alt+del does nothing, as the PC is not respnsive to anything. It
seems to happen more when watching video files, either form the hard disk or
streamed over the internet, but it can also happen when typing in a Word
document with nothing else open, and so it is hard to find any pattern. I
have to press the reset button to use the PC again. The recovery options
display, but then there are no entries in event viewer to give any clue of
the cause. Help would be very much appreicated.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I would suspect your Display Adapter driver is not functioning correctly.
Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) can be used to 'uninstall' the driver, and
'scan for hardware changes' to refresh the driver (Action menu)

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[AJ]

Sorry, I should have mentioned it in my original post; I have already
searched for new drivers for the display adapter, and found none, and rolled
back to the old driver. Rolling back did not help.

 

[AJ]

Now here's something else. When I try to open System Restore, an error
message appears stating: There was an unexpected error. The file name or
directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (0x8007007B). System
Restore will now close. Is this part of the problem, or a different problem?
How do I solve this now?

 

[Bazza]

I would be very interested in your solution to this problem, because it is
exactly the same as mine. My computer can freeze when starting up, after 5
min,s or it will go on for hours. the ram never seems to be fully used up nor
does the processor seem to be working hard. I have vista home premium on a
quad core 2.4 with 4 gig ram. 32bit system.

 

[Leslie]

Just wondering if anyone is having this problem:
I have Vista and installed Windows XP. Most always, when I click
'Favorties' on the tool bar, then click add to favorties, it just freezes up.
If I press CAD or open something that is minimized, then the window comes up;
Add A Favortie. If I use the two small stars to add to favorites, it works
fine. The same problem happens when I try to delete a file in Word or Excel.
I have sent the laptop back to Toshiba three times, each time the claims to
have fixed the problem, but haven't. The last time they even claim they
replaced the mother board. Any ideas/suggestion? I've also done the System
Restore three times!!
Thanx to everyone

 

[Leslie]

Correction to my last question re freezing when adding to Favorties: I
installed OFFICE small business XP