If you want to use Aero Glass and to avoid an adverse effect on performance, you must upgrade your hardware. In this case, you most likely have to upgrade the computer's video card. If you decide to upgrade the video card, make sure that the card that you selected has the "Certified for Windows Vista" logo.
To view this logo, visit the following Microsoft Web site:. In this case, you must re-enable Aero Glass before you continue to troubleshoot the performance problem.
You may have to contact your computer manufacturer or hardware vendor to determine whether your computer supports Windows Vista, or whether there are any updates that must be installed to make the computer compatible. When you start the computer in safe made, you can determine whether the cause of the startup-related performance issue is related to a background service or to a driver. To start in safe mode, follow these steps:. Click Start , click the arrow next to the Lock button, and then click Restart.
Press and hold the F8 key as your computer restarts. Note You have to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, you must try to restart your computer. To do this, wait until the Windows logon prompt appears, and then shut down and restart your computer. If the problem continues after you start the computer in safe mode, the problem may occur for one or more of the following reasons:.
If you can verify that the problem continues to occur when you start the computer in safe mode, restart the computer in normal mode, and go to the next troubleshooting step. If you verify that the performance issue does not occur in safe mode, start Windows Vista in a clean-boot environment to determine the programs or the services that are causing the issue.
This process will systematically eliminate any of the third-party services or applications that are running on the system that could potentially be the cause of the problem. For more information about how to perform clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows Vista, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.
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My problem is quite different I got a Microsoft outlook account two years back some how it was suspended I am trying to recover that but sorry to say that I am not able to get the recovery of my suspended account after the efforts of about four months. How I can recover my account. When ever I try I get a response automated showing that Microsoft is not satisfied with the answer for the queries while I always submit to the best of my knowledge and correct.
Now I am unable to decide whether I should continue with my Microsoft Windows phone Lumia or to go for purchase for some other mobile. Try this for multiple and random 'Not Responding' errors; 1.
Once you restart check if the issue is resolved in clean boot state. If the issue does not occur in a clean boot state, follow the steps below to diagnose the program or startup item which is causing the issue. Click the Services tab, and then click to select the Hide all Microsoft services check box. If the problem still occurs, repeat step 1 and step 2. In step 2, click to clear half of the check boxes that you originally selected in the Service list.
If the problem does not occur, repeat step 1 and step 2. In step 2, select only half of the remaining check boxes that are cleared in the Service list. Repeat these steps until you have selected all the check boxes. If only one service is selected in the Service list, and you still experience the problem, the selected service causes the problem. Go to step 6. If no service causes this problem, go to step 4.
Click the Startup tab, and then click to select half of the check boxes in the Startup Item list. If the problem still occurs, repeat step 1 and step 4. In step 4, click to clear half of the check boxes that you originally selected in the Startup Item list.
If the problem does not occur, repeat step 1 and step 4. In step 4, select only half of the remaining check boxes that are cleared in the Startup Item list. I have also search the event logs but found nothing correlating with the times that I am experiencing the problem. It sounds like we just have to hope that Microsoft will find something and fix it.
It is a particularly difficult problem given that it happens apparently at random and leaves no evidence in the event log.
Hi all, last night I decided to take some aggressive steps in stopping and disableing all of the NON-Essential services from starting and of course running. I can provide a list of what I had disabled and what I had enabled. I had the best 16 hours, in a long long long time.. I do believe that I am on the right track. Now, I shoud have disabled one service at a time and watch the behaviour, but I am not patient and did not want to wait..
I will continue to tweak and play until I figure out what service is giving me the headache. Update, I deleted the page file. Intel Core 2 Quad Q 2. It happens when Vista detects that the application is not servicing its event loop. The event loop is the way the system instructs a Windows app what to do e. It's not normal for an app to go unresponsive, something's wrong with the apps themselves that's causing them to loop or stall. There's quite a bit of tolerance - i. It's documented somewhere; I forget the exact amount of time.
I have Vista x64 Ultimate SP1 and run it for months without seeing what you're describing. On the other hand, when I'm developing a Windows app that gets into an infinite loop or simply ignores incoming Events for a long time, the window will ghost and the application will be labeled as non-responsive.
If you're seeing this on otherwise trustworthy apps you didn't mention which ones What apps are failing? Antivirus maybe? Sorry, I will not be silent. The end-user has some if not a lot of responsibility for whatever problems occur on his or her machine. While I appreciate that you are trying to share the mindset to achieve trouble-free running, I had not expected to trigger such a defensive diatribe.
I have been using computers since the early 70s, again almost every day, and, although I would not consider myself an expert, being self-taught, I am not an idiot. I know enough to not have previously experienced an incident that I could not resolve.
I am well aware of the responsibility of the end-user and the potential for causing problems through careless downloads that are, at best, incompatible. My installation of Windows 7 was onto a new computer with no previous installation, the configuration was set up by the installation program on the basis of my system and necessary inputs from me. With the exception of a new HP printer program installed recently, everything on my system I have previous experience of with XP and, in a lot of cases, 98SE and everything had been functioning satisfactorily.
To the best of my knowledge, again with the exception of installing the HP program, there have been no recent changes to the configuration of my system other than through updates.
My point is that in the past, although they probably received very stupid requests on occasions, Microsoft provided support. While I appreciate they may be beavering away in the background now delivering updates definitely a GOOD thing , the inference from the stereotypical email sent out in response to current requests for assistance is that Microsoft have abrogated responsibility for providing direct support, referring end-users to forums such as this.
This means using the Internet to search through probably millions of end-user contributions in the hope of finding a similar problem without any guarantee of real knowledge or expertise. I apologize for sounding defensive. I don't like being told to shut up, however candy coated. I also don't like that Microsoft doesn't respond personally, but they are what they are.
If you think your telling me not to state that fact openly is going to somehow help them change their ways No further comment on that subject.
I accept that you have a lot of experience. Some time let's talk about building 8 bit systems in the s. Keeping in mind my Windows 7 x64 system is rock solid stable, does not exhibit any "not responding issues", does not log errors in the error logs, is fully configured with plenty of software, and gets used hard every day, while yours isn't stable by implication, since you have been posting in this thread , let's try to get to the bottom of the problem by examining the differences You have named several packages that represent a fundamental difference between what you run and what I run, and which could well be involved in this problem.
I run Avast and Windows Defender. I put a LOT of time and testing into making sure Avast 5 Pro did not destabilize anything, and it seems very efficient I can't tell it's there.
Notably Avast has been 64 bit-capable way back since XP x64, something not every antivirus maker can say. Experience counts. Speaking of experience, not everything that worked well in the XP and Vista environments works well in Windows 7. It's still too new. This is well over a year of testing and working with Windows 7 talking.
Personally, I have heard of enough people having problems with AVG that I would advise starting by removing your antivirus software and seeing if your problems go away. I don't have anything against AVG, and I wish them all the business success in the world, but I have personally been involved with at least 5 issues where AVG was found to be interfering with Windows operation and where removing it restored normal Windows operation.
It is possible that changing brands is your best track to success. I'm not sure why you feel you need Spybot at all, if you don't download things and have turned off ActiveX and scripting, and you of course have Windows Defender right out of the box.
In years of use I can count on only one hand the number of times my antimalware has flagged something. They're only there as a safety net; good practices and habits keep the vast majority of it out.
Also, what Add-ons do you have? As you say you have disabled Microsoft Security Essentials, what firewall and malware software are you running that is compatable? You do realize these overlap, right? Sounds to me like a recipe for failure. I seriously doubt whether either development group has put much effort into testing in the presence of the other package. I Just switched my Default printer to the xps one and now i dont have my mouse freezing on me. I have tried everything possible in this planet, nothing worked I have done this and my pc is free of those irritating '' not responding '' issues.
Call me clueless, i wont argue cos i am when it comes to this kind of problems and I really loved Firefox, but Opera seems to solve my probs. With all do respect to FF lovahs. I will keep you updated about this '' solution ''. No, you don't.
If you read my original post you will see that my problem was not specific to web browsers, but affected all kinds of applications. We have had solutions relating to wired mice, default printers, different x32 versions of the OS, total hardware replacement, page files, IE8, anti-virus, removal of SP I suppose we should be happy if these things have helped someone, but it's extraordinary how few people bother to analyze the stated problem to see if it is the same before launching into their pet solution to some other problem.
I have read this thread and tried many that I thought could be the problem only to find ZERO solutions. I did a complete clean install of Vista Ultimate 64 bit and no matter what you click on the PC stops responding.
Clean install no virus protection, no programs installed, ZIP stuff running in the background. I can only think now that it is either a hardware issue or Vista issue. Hardware, I tested the memory and it is fine, PC is not overclocked nor over heating, fans are all dust free and fans working.
All test comes out fine. I took the 4 2gig each out, and replaced only two 4gigs and same thing, swapped them out, same thing. Doesn't matter! We have to literally cold boot the PC. The not responding will hang for up to 10 minutes or more! No blue screens of death but it is almost like something is failing or file conflicting. This is with SP1, or SP2.
Note: The clean install has SP1. The strange thing is that all worked fine then out of nowhere this starts. Nothing new was downloaded except a windows update. This isn't a store bought PC, this PC was put together by me, with help from the computer Tech on which components will work well with each other 2 years ago. I left only the 4 gigs of ram in because the motherboards max ram is 8 gigs, so I figured putting the full 8 gigs in might be the cause.
I have no idea what to check or think now. Finally, after 1. My not responding problem started when I upgraded from Vista to Win7 at least I don't remember the problem on Vista. I have experienced most of the situations that have been posted and add WordPerfect X4 and X5 and Omnipage 17, that last two should run well on Win 7 64 bit systems. I have tried letting the system sit for hours to resolve the not responding problem, with no luck. It never recovers.
I have noticed that the problem often occurs when trying to rename a file or folder. I even went as far as buying and running Reimage Repair, which is advertised to fix OS problems.
In reading through this thread, I notice that many of you seem to have AMD multi-core systems. Could this be a common factor to this problem? One additional item, though this may or may not be related: after Win 7 is running for several hours, I often find the the problem worsens and additional applications refused to open, without explanation or with some unexplained arcane error note. Rebooting will take care of this problem for awhile, but not the not-responding problem.
I have the same problem in Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I have a computer that is 3 months old. At first everything ran quickly, but over time i noticed constand "not responding" errors. On another forum, i found an answer that works for me. Here is what i did and i hope it helps:. I dont use Windows Medica Center so i didnt add it back. I read that you can add it back and if things slow down again at a later date, perform the same action or removing and readding to correct it.
It sucks that their isnt a permanent fix, but the 5 minutes spent on this procees beats having to deal with "not responding" every time i try to do something. There seems to be two kinds of problems that create this situation. Therefore it is not very resilient in USB power sources. Also the capacitors "age" with time and they are not as efficient. This obviously provides more power to the USB ports and the mouse works fine!
Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. This happens to me two or three times in a typical day using Vista on this machine. I will be using some application - it seems that almost any application may be affected - and it will suddenly become unresponsive. If I click on the application's window again, it displays " not responding " in the title bar.
Sometimes the application's window becomes 'greyed out'. If I click on another application's window, sometimes it works normally but often it also locks up. If I click some application in the task bar, it will not restore the application's window; instead the whole thing Windows Explorer, I am guessing becomes unresponsive.
The mouse may continue to move but no mouse clicks are processed. Icons in the tray, like that for TaskManager, do not update. After being frozen like this for maybe 30 seconds, everything returns to normal. Usually several windows suddenly come to the front, as though some of those lost mouse-clicks are now being acted upon.
The applications that may show the " not responding " in their title bar seem to include almost anything. So I suspect the problem is not with any particular application but something about the Explorer desktop or Vista's handling of its message queues. I have not been able to detect any particular conditions that trigger the behavior. There does not seem to be any application consuming the CPU.
I searched the event viewer but cannot find anything interesting at the times corresponding to the problem.
Thursday, September 18, PM. Hey everyone, I have the same problem of not responding while i bought the laptop with bit Vista, my laptop is ACER g 4g, 2. Couple of days ago, I tried to install bit Windows 7 and unfortunately the problem came out as before, I thought it was CPU's problem with incompatible with the bit operating system, laterly after observing, i realised the reason of the problem is acturally occur on the HARD DISK.
Restart computer. Enter BIOS 3. Hope this helps. Marked as answer by wirwin Tuesday, December 1, AM. Thursday, November 12, PM. I believe, and I might be wrong, that this is one of the ways Vista prevents the user from doing something with an application that might be harmful to the system. If a particular application, which could be anything really, is doing something that can't be interrupted, or interrupting it at that moment will cause the program to become unstable, it sets the program as non-responsive so the user cannot tamper with it until it is in a state where continued operation will not generate instability.
I look on it as a failsafe against my doing something that will inadvertantly cause problems. While it can be a tad bit insulting for the OS to have to slap my hand and say "don't touch", at least it isn't crashing or causing the programs to terminate unexpectedly.
Anyway, just my observations. Feel free to disregard. Friday, September 19, PM. Thanks for the reply. I would check hardware. Run memtest over night and see what comes out of it. Monday, September 22, PM. Bill Walter. Tuesday, September 23, AM. Thanks Bill. Wednesday, September 24, PM. I wish I could provide some help, but I'm seeing the same problem.
I have noticed it's more frequent following a reboot or startup in the morning. After the machine has been running a few hours, I rarely see this problem. I had Vista x86 on this same hardware a few months ago and it didn't exhibit the problem.. Sunday, October 19, PM. Thursday, October 23, PM. I am running into this issue as well.
I'm running Vista x64 Ultimate on a Thinkpad T61p. Other than this issue, the system runs just fine. Sometimes I can alt-tab to another app, or bring up Task Mgr, but then as I switch to other apps, they in turn usually become unresponsive as well. Nothing in Event Log, Reliability Monitor. This is incredibly frustrating, I'm going to try and switch to some other apps, and see if i can narrow it down to one that's causing it.
Friday, October 31, PM. I checked windows update history and found theres been afew Security Updates so i'm not sure if this maybe be the cause but it sure looks like a windows update error seeing as we all have the same problem in only the last month or so?
Sunday, November 9, AM. But more recently November it's become much worse. It affects frequently used applicaitons such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Outlook, and Quicken as well as other applications I use less frequently.
Often CPU utilization is very low. I turned off Media Sharing but that hasn't seemed to help so far. Really annoying Sunday, November 16, PM. Is everyone using Kaspersky AV? I thought there might be a fix but it is happening all over the place. Using Vista on Thinkpad R61i. Constant not responding freezes and gray screens.
I was just about to reinstall the OS and I'm saving everything everything right now-and I got the error while doing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tuesday, November 18, AM. I do not have Kaspersky on this standalone station which is running Ultimate with 4GB RAM; and some programs have failed entirely while loading or opening a file either because of the "Not Responding" problem with either Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer leading the pack.
Come to think of it, I have recently returned a few purchased software that wouldn't run properly: now I begin to suspect that it is the same problem. What about IE 8 beta? It seems to me that the problem escalated when I downloaded and installed the quirky beta my mistake, the last one, I promised myself. I can't even find a way to uninstall the irritant.
We need answers, anybody, please! Saturday, December 20, AM. Monday, March 23, AM.
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