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    Windows Vista Freezes at Desktop from cold start

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by sandesign, Sep 17, 2008.

  1. sandesign

    sandesign Notebook Consultant

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    Have Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit), and as far as I'm aware, I haven't recently installed any new drivers or strange programs, or anything of the sort. Every time I turn on the computer, Vista begins to start normally. The Welcome screen comes up, I select my user name, the desktop loads up, and everything appears to be working just fine for about 20 seconds, but then it just freezes up. I can't select anything, click the start menu, or use Ctrl-Alt-Delete (the only thing that will work is the mouse). This started to happen a month ago...

    My system:
    HP Pavilion dv8320us Entertainment Notebook PC
    Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit SP1 with the latest updates
    Intel Centrino Duo Mobile T2050 (1.6 Ghz, 2Mb L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
    2 Gb RAM DDR2
    160 Gb HD with dual hard drives
    Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 256 Mb Graphics Card

    Any suggestions will be welcome,

    Thanks in advance...
     
    sandesign, Sep 17, 2008
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  2. sandesign

    sandesign Notebook Consultant

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    Anyone? Please Help me, this is very annoying :(
     
    sandesign, Sep 18, 2008
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  3. fonduekid

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    Have you tried starting up in safe mode and see if you could check some log files for any error information or error codes?? May be it will help better if you could know what the error actually is....

    Just found this on the web....
    Also, did you install anything new after which you started having this issue??? or do you remember anything similar (since you said it started happening a month ago)? I was thinking of a system restore option, because I read in another forum that the system restore worked fine for a user there... but I don't know if you could / would be happy to system restore 'that far back'...

    But you could probably try the in-place repair option if you have the Vista disc... it works on many occasions..

    Edit: Another thing you could do is to try and turn off some startup program' and see if its ok then.. like some program' which you have installed just before you started having this problem or some program' which you don't need at startup anyways, because you could have them later on if needed.... just a thought.
     
    fonduekid, Sep 18, 2008
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    glatzfront Notebook Geek

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    Use the system configuration utility, from safe mode, for a clean boot. Help for this is available within the utility,
     
    glatzfront, Sep 18, 2008
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    sandesign Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for your suggestions. I didn't installed anything strange before the issue. It's a random freeze, because I can work some days with no problems, and suddenly happens again.
     
    sandesign, Sep 18, 2008
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