Programs to freeze or take a long time to respond

When I run new programs that they can take a long time to start or they freeze. This happens sporadically, but enough to be a nusiance. I followed all the steps listed under the section "fixit" of Vista Hoem premium and the maintence of the Vista Help sections section: I've defragmented, wipe the drive, run the system performance (overall score of 5.4 due to memory all other 5.9), has increased to 8000 MB swap file and several other steps. If I try to click on the program, while the little circle turns, my screen becomes a pale white and I can't do anythingfor several minutes

Has anyone else had this problem and solved? I have a lot of space (free 400 G) and 4G of RAM.

This happens anytime, not only after the machine has been for some time, given the previous answers to this question.

Daniel Dixon III

Hi Daniel,.

What application are you trying to access?

You can perform the clean boot, and then check if the problem persists. It will start Windows Vista by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs and helps eliminate software conflicts.

The following link has steps showing how to perform the clean boot: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Note: Please make sure that the computer is configured to start as usual according to step 7 of the article: how to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Reference:optimize Windows Vista for better performance

Hope the helps of information. Please post back and we do know.

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