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CJM
I've been running Vista Ultimate x64 since early November and since that
time I've used various Beta and RTM drivers for much of my hardware. More
recently, I think every driver and utility I was using was RTM and
Vista-compatible, so I decided I would clear the decks by re-installing
Vista.
One of the problems I had experienced for the majority the 4+ months was
that often Vista would not shut down correctly. It would sometimes hang at
the desktop, sometimes at the 'logging off' screen and sometimes at the
'shutting down' screen. I think these hangs seem to have occurred after
gaming sessions; AFAIK it never hung when I'd simply done some browsing &
checking emails etc. On a number of occasions, I'd get an indication that
CTHelper (Creative Audigy) and DWM (desktop windows manager) were hanging
and I could elect to kill the processes, though it rarely made a difference.
The other night I re-installed Vista (which was quick and painless) and
since then I've installed Office 2007, ASUS AI Tools, ASUS PC Probe, a few
other utilities, Avast AV, BF2 & STALKER. Last night I applied some more
updates via Windows Update - when it came to restart the machine it seem to
'hang' at the 'Applying Updates' page as it was restarting. After 20 mins I
forced a reset, and when it restarted it stated that it was applying the
patches again. After a minute or two, I was back in Windows and I could
check the Event Log - it stated that around half a dozen
programs/drivers/services had 'timed out' when shutting down. I can't
remember the details but I was getting the impression that these programs
were probably getting stuck because another program was misbehaving - ie I
don't think these programs are the route cause of the problem.
I had a quick game of STALKER and again when it came to shutting down it
hung at the shutting down screen. I can't have done much other than browse
the web, check my email and play STALKER in that session.
I know that the Creative and Nvidia drivers are still ropey even though they
are RTM, but they both seem to work fine on my machine.
I'm a bit short on inspiration here. I haven't re-installed a lot of the
stuff that I am planning to but already I've noticed a problem. It's more
that likely to be one of the hardware drivers or an always-on utility like
PC Probe, but how exactly to I narrow it down? I could try to use a process
of elimination by to some extent, but I was wondering if anyone had an
inspriration on a more clever route... Is there a more direct way of
determining which program is refusing to respond at shutdown.
Thanks in advance.
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CJM
time I've used various Beta and RTM drivers for much of my hardware. More
recently, I think every driver and utility I was using was RTM and
Vista-compatible, so I decided I would clear the decks by re-installing
Vista.
One of the problems I had experienced for the majority the 4+ months was
that often Vista would not shut down correctly. It would sometimes hang at
the desktop, sometimes at the 'logging off' screen and sometimes at the
'shutting down' screen. I think these hangs seem to have occurred after
gaming sessions; AFAIK it never hung when I'd simply done some browsing &
checking emails etc. On a number of occasions, I'd get an indication that
CTHelper (Creative Audigy) and DWM (desktop windows manager) were hanging
and I could elect to kill the processes, though it rarely made a difference.
The other night I re-installed Vista (which was quick and painless) and
since then I've installed Office 2007, ASUS AI Tools, ASUS PC Probe, a few
other utilities, Avast AV, BF2 & STALKER. Last night I applied some more
updates via Windows Update - when it came to restart the machine it seem to
'hang' at the 'Applying Updates' page as it was restarting. After 20 mins I
forced a reset, and when it restarted it stated that it was applying the
patches again. After a minute or two, I was back in Windows and I could
check the Event Log - it stated that around half a dozen
programs/drivers/services had 'timed out' when shutting down. I can't
remember the details but I was getting the impression that these programs
were probably getting stuck because another program was misbehaving - ie I
don't think these programs are the route cause of the problem.
I had a quick game of STALKER and again when it came to shutting down it
hung at the shutting down screen. I can't have done much other than browse
the web, check my email and play STALKER in that session.
I know that the Creative and Nvidia drivers are still ropey even though they
are RTM, but they both seem to work fine on my machine.
I'm a bit short on inspiration here. I haven't re-installed a lot of the
stuff that I am planning to but already I've noticed a problem. It's more
that likely to be one of the hardware drivers or an always-on utility like
PC Probe, but how exactly to I narrow it down? I could try to use a process
of elimination by to some extent, but I was wondering if anyone had an
inspriration on a more clever route... Is there a more direct way of
determining which program is refusing to respond at shutdown.
Thanks in advance.
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CJM
