Windows freezes

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Mar 14th, 2003, 11:58 AM
phrozeman

Windows freezes

Hi there :)

Since a few days my windows XP is acting stange...
When i open an application like VB, Word, Access, Frontpage and i want to open an document, the window freezes and will be active again after +/- 1 minute.

It starts freezing after the Common Dialog (Open file) pops-up and i clicked on an folder. After that minut it will show the content of the folder, but when i click an subfolder it will happend again.

When browse with Windows explorer i got no problems at all.

Any idea why it is, or how to solve that?
Mar 15th, 2003, 01:53 AM
Nightwalker83

Check your computer's ram. :)
Mar 15th, 2003, 08:04 AM
phrozeman

Just upgraded it from 256MB DDR to 512MB DDR 333mhz :)
Still same problem
Mar 16th, 2003, 03:04 AM
Pc_Madness

Check that you only have what you need running at startup.
Mar 16th, 2003, 11:58 AM
Pirate

Get to the last good condition !
Mar 16th, 2003, 12:27 PM
Sastraxi

Take out the stick of RAM that you had in there at the beginning, and put in the new RAM you bought. Alternatively, search for memtest86 and run it.
Mar 16th, 2003, 02:07 PM
siyan

sounds liek a software issue...
Mar 18th, 2003, 05:18 AM
phrozeman

Found the solution!!

Format c:\ :D
Mar 18th, 2003, 12:34 PM
Pirate

Quote:

Originally posted by phrozeman
Found the solution!!
Format c:\ :D

I missed that one , I should have mentioned it first ! lol:D
Mar 18th, 2003, 01:02 PM
Sastraxi

My solution would be to install Windows 2000 =)
Mar 18th, 2003, 06:32 PM
duc

Quote:

Originally posted by Pirate
I missed that one , I should have mentioned it first ! lol:D

better solution. get a good computer. dude get a dell
Mar 20th, 2003, 03:44 AM
phrozeman

Just bought a new harddisk, man that really speeds up my pc... Booting WinXP takes only 18 seconds... i had an 5400rpm Maxtor, now i bought a 7200rpm/8MB Cache. If ur pc is slow, my advice is to hang an 7200 disk in it.
Mar 20th, 2003, 08:12 AM
Pirate

Quote:

Originally posted by phrozeman
Just bought a new harddisk, man that really speeds up my pc... Booting WinXP takes only 18 seconds... i had an 5400rpm Maxtor, now i bought a 7200rpm/8MB Cache. If ur pc is slow, my advice is to hang an 7200 disk in it.

I guess your happeniess won't last long if you were like me:( . I remember when I bought a new HD with speed of (ultra 7500bb) , after two or three months I noticed considerable slowness . I don't know exactly why , some told me that formating and partitioning can affect HDs but I don't believe that to some extent .
Mar 20th, 2003, 10:55 AM
phrozeman

I'll keep that in my mind, i heard the same story that many times formating an harddisk can decrease performance