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    Slow icon generation and Vista Hanging

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mortalcombat, Mar 17, 2009.

  1. mortalcombat

    mortalcombat Notebook Consultant

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    Vista is taking a lot of time to load shortcut icons and file icons.. Why is this happening? My laptop is 1 month old

    Also my laptop is hanging every minute or so for 1 sec


    Tell me if you need a report or anything (ex: hijackthis or any other app)
     
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    dunno if this will help but I found errors worth reporting from the Event Viewer:
    Log Name: System
    Source: disk
    Date: 3/16/2009 11:07:15 PM
    Event ID: 11
    Task Category: None
    Level: Error
    Keywords: Classic
    User: N/A
    Description:
    The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR2.


    Log Name: System
    Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Processor-Power
    Date: 3/15/2009 9:02:59 PM
    Event ID: 7
    Task Category: None
    Level: Warning
    Keywords:
    User: SYSTEM
    Description:
    The speed of processor 0 is being limited by system firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance state for 71 seconds since the last report.
    Same for processor 1
     
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