Vista will not open apps or to stop after being used for a short period (semi freezes)

When I start the computer, everything loads normally and works very well for a while, usually an hour or two. But after being in use or left alone, I'm more able to open applications, including Notepad, Microsoft Excel, Firefox or even windows Explorer Windows. In addition, the stop menu will not be displayed. I can open the start menu, but nothing else inside, so I have to do a cold reboot every time.

Excel is the only program that gave me any kind of error message, but it says there is not enough memory to run.

I am running vista Home premium 32-bit with 4 GB of RAM.

I also made sure to update all my drivers, most of my programs and even to reinstall service pack 2, but the problem persists.

You've done a repair system/upgrade and the problem persists?  If this is the case, I sincerely doubt a clean install will do better (but he can and may be worth a try if it comes to that).  I'm now tempted to think of material.  We will check your hard drive and RAM:

To test your hard drive, check the manufacturer and then get the diagnostic utility of: http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/hard-drive-support/302602-hard-drive-diagnostic-utilities.html.  If she failed the test, replace it.  If she passes the test, then it's probably nothing wrong with it.

You can also test your RAM to http://www.memtest.org/.  If it fails, test each piece individually to find those who are bad and replace.  If it passes, the RAM is probably OK.

Is the computer that runs particularly hot - y at - it part of it which causes the pain from too much heat so that you have to pull your hand?  The fan blows and he is blocked in any way (perhaps by a piece of paper or lint or something)?  You may need to open the case to check for this (unless it's a laptop, then just check to see if the fan is working and you can feel air blowing from the vent.

After that, it of time for the computer repair technician to check the system hardware (NOT Geek Squad or one of these centers of department store, but a true professional) - but try following this section first to see if this is useful (and maybe try a pure install as a last resort).  The problem (if it exists) can be any number of things that you can't check yourself without special equipment spare parts (the motherboard, processor, power supply,...). Check around to find someone reputable.  Alternatively, you can return it for repair to the manufacturer (they have all the spare parts that may be required).  Find out the costs and quality of options and guarantees with the repairs and then to make your best choice.  Don't forget to backup your important data before send you it or bring it in - there is a pretty good chance that they will do something that will ask you to do a clean install even if it is probably not really necessary (but they are more interested in fixing the problem than the preservation of your data, programs and settings).  If you have a version of Vista that is capable of a complelte image backup that would be the best choice – you could just restore when they return from the machine and you will be right back where you were.

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If they test OK, then let's see what you have running on your system at startup.  Go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx and download and install Autoruns (which is a FAR superior to Vista msconfig program) and see what to load at startup.  I bet there are a lot of things, you really don't need but installed by the manufacturer when you installed programs (sometimes just so they will begin more quickly when / if requested).  Some are inportant as Windows Defender and your software AV - but I bet that most of them aren't and they use valuable resources running in the background without valid reason.  When I checked my own system I ended up remove about 90% of the items in the start menu - and the system showed an improvement notice in reactivity.  Don't worry, you can always start almost all of the programs in the menu all programs (or you can add controls to the items or create new programs that you actually launched at startup with Autoruns.

The advice that Michael Murphy gave you already should have cleaned most of all what could be slowing down your system - and the repair/upgrade system took care of all the corruption in files on your system. I'm honestly not Kow nothing else to try (with the exception of the material option described above).

I hope this helps.

Good luck!

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