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    vista ulimate problems

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by t3a, Sep 22, 2008.

  1. t3a

    t3a Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey all, i am a new vista user who would like some help to understand vista ultimate better. now i have vista ultmate 32 bit on my thinkpad t400. and i dont know why but sometimes my pc would have one program that would go into lock up and no matter what i do, i cant get it to go away. not even after i signed out of that account. in fact, my vista would the froze at logging out. because this laptop is very new. i dont know if its the laptop's fault or is it the program.

    thanks for helping
    here are my specs
    intel core 2 duo t9600 2.8 GHz, 4 gb of ddr3 memory, and a 320 hard drive.
     
    t3a, Sep 22, 2008
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  2. eyclai

    eyclai Notebook Enthusiast

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    When I had my first Vista PC last year, it was absolutely horrible - Vista update would hang, the PC was fast sometimes and slow the other etc. It was until I did a recovery install and then run a Vista update before doing any thing else - 88 update packs later my Vista was much more stable.
     
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    fonduekid JSUTAONHTERBIRCKINTEHWLAL

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    More probably its the program itself... If you don't mind can you get us more specifics please? as in what program it is? Is it something from M$ like office or something, or does this happen to all program at random? Its also possible that the program isn't compatible with Vista itself... I don't know, but its a possibility. So it would be better if you could kindly get us more specifics. Thanks.

    Also do you see any error codes? I mean after you boot up? Well, since u said it freezes on boot up, you might want to boot up in safe mode and see if there are any error reports or logs with some error codes.. It might be more easy then to find out what is happening.
     
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  4. Zenica

    Zenica InterArmaEnimSilentLeges

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    My Vista Ultimate 64 is great when I fresh install, its the updates for me that cause issues. They are like Russian Roulette.
     
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    t3a Notebook Enthusiast

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    thanks for all the reply!
    the program that get stuck most is wmware, that i figured it out at the setting.
    but recently i have common programs like msn messenger going into lockup once and firefox3 going into lockup but i was able to end that one. so far the real big one is msn and wmware.

    my vista does have problems at booting, but it does at recovery. i had backed up my data on the drive. when there is a problem, i used the restore to make it go back to the prevent setting, however, it resetted my admin account but kept my other 2 sub accounts that was created after the back up. is that normal?
     
    t3a, Sep 22, 2008
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