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ed_canton
I have a Dell E1505 laptop (2 gigs, dual core, graphics card, should
handle Vista fine they tell me). It came with XP but Dell later sent
a Vista upgrade disk. I upgraded, worked with it for a couple of days
until it went blue screen and ate a days worth of data, and then I did
a full install. The full install is working better (by far) but now
Vista has developed another habit.
It constantly locks up. It locked up as I was writing this note.
It boots and the icons load up. You can click an icon and the
application will load (or system software such as Microsoft Explorer)
but that is often it (can't close, save files, etc.)
Now, what does work is the Task Manager and here is the odd thing to
me. Just getting in and out of the Task Manager unlocks everything.
By bios is the latest version.
I've checked the system files (sfc.exe) - looks good
I've ran chkdsk and the thing is fully defragmented
There were a lot of error messages in a log about the Vista search
engine being corrupt so I stopped it. I'll probably do a re-index
tonight.
Spyware - I checked it - clean
Viruses - checked with two programs
Drivers are the latest I can find.
Most of the software has been upgraded to "Vista specs" (well kinda -
I think a couple of the programs have a ways to go but not running
them doesn't help)
Anybody have any ideas?????
handle Vista fine they tell me). It came with XP but Dell later sent
a Vista upgrade disk. I upgraded, worked with it for a couple of days
until it went blue screen and ate a days worth of data, and then I did
a full install. The full install is working better (by far) but now
Vista has developed another habit.
It constantly locks up. It locked up as I was writing this note.
It boots and the icons load up. You can click an icon and the
application will load (or system software such as Microsoft Explorer)
but that is often it (can't close, save files, etc.)
Now, what does work is the Task Manager and here is the odd thing to
me. Just getting in and out of the Task Manager unlocks everything.
By bios is the latest version.
I've checked the system files (sfc.exe) - looks good
I've ran chkdsk and the thing is fully defragmented
There were a lot of error messages in a log about the Vista search
engine being corrupt so I stopped it. I'll probably do a re-index
tonight.
Spyware - I checked it - clean
Viruses - checked with two programs
Drivers are the latest I can find.
Most of the software has been upgraded to "Vista specs" (well kinda -
I think a couple of the programs have a ways to go but not running
them doesn't help)
Anybody have any ideas?????