Vista suddenly takes an age to load and then keeps freezing

Vista has suddenly become unusable. It takes an hour to load up and then keeps freezing. I added no any material or any other software on the computer, this just started happening. I perform checks for memory and use the repair utility, but nothing cures the problem. He also lost all the restore points, so I can't use it to restore to an earlier time. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

I tried the following steps to analyze a crashdump once

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2011/01/28/interpreting-a-WHEA-error-for-a-MCA-fault.aspx

but the discharge did not have this info in it.

Here is some general information

http://msdn.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/Windows/hardware/gg463286.aspx

All I can suggest is to test the memory that you have already tested the hard drive and there is no other type of test built in (with the exception of WinSat performance tests).

Diagnosis of memory
If you have not run a diagnosis of memory, please do. Click on Start - Control Panel - choose Classic view in the left pane - choose Administrative Tools - then memory diagnostic tool.
 
For memory diagnostic results
Click on Start - Control Panel (and select Classic view in the left pane), select Administrative Tools and then Event Viewer , and then look in the event (Local) - Applications and Services - Microsoft - Windows - MemoryDiagnostic-results Viewer entered.
 
Look for EventID is 1201 or 1101 and Source is MemoryDiagnostic-results

 
Double-click the entry for more details on this entry.
 
WinSat
 
WinSat is a program not a performance test error detection program. However it runs different exercises under systems.
 
Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).
 
Help
 
WinSAT /?
 
Then run one at a time and see if it hangs the computer.
 
WinSAT features - eef - v
WinSAT cpu - v
WinSAT mem - v
WinSAT dwm - v
WinSAT d3d - v
WinSAT media - v
WinSAT mfmedia - v
WinSAT disk - v

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