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  1. Mar 14th, 2003, 11:58 AM #1
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    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?
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  2. Mar 15th, 2003, 01:53 AM #2
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    Check your computer's ram.
    Last edited by Nightwalker83; Mar 15th, 2003 at 02:08 AM.
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  3. Mar 15th, 2003, 08:04 AM #3
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    Just upgraded it from 256MB DDR to 512MB DDR 333mhz
    Still same problem
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  4. Mar 16th, 2003, 03:04 AM #4
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    Check that you only have what you need running at startup.
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  6. Mar 16th, 2003, 11:58 AM #5
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    Get to the last good condition !
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  7. Mar 16th, 2003, 12:27 PM #6
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    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.
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  8. Mar 16th, 2003, 02:07 PM #7
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    sounds liek a software issue...
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  9. Mar 18th, 2003, 05:18 AM #8
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    Found the solution!!

    Format c:\
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    Originally posted by phrozeman
    Found the solution!!
    Format c:\
    I missed that one , I should have mentioned it first ! lol
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  12. Mar 18th, 2003, 01:02 PM #10
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    My solution would be to install Windows 2000 =)
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  13. Mar 18th, 2003, 06:32 PM #11
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    Originally posted by Pirate
    I missed that one , I should have mentioned it first ! lol
    better solution. get a good computer. dude get a dell
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    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.
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    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 .
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  16. Mar 20th, 2003, 10:55 AM #14
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    I'll keep that in my mind, i heard the same story that many times formating an harddisk can decrease performance
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