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| Thread ID: 91626 | 2008-07-13 10:20:00 | Vista's Instability is driving me insane | a helpless random (13059) | Press F1 |
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| 688480 | 2008-07-13 10:20:00 | Hi I am having some issues with windows vista ultimate sp1 stability, whenever i copy very large files (especially fom a friends external hdd) then vista will often say Windows Explorer has stopped responding:stare: which means that the 37gb i just copied is useless and i need to recopy :crying Very,very annoying. and it also does it to other programs frequently ect Race Driver Grid stops responding about every 10 minutes and NFS Prostreet lasts about 1minute, but the very worst part about it is that they ARE responding, just taking thier time however vista will not let you ignore the message, its only options are check for solution online and close or just close. It is driving me insane!! if anyone has any idea how to make it any more stable then please do not hesitate to tell me. Thanks. |
a helpless random (13059) | ||
| 688481 | 2008-07-13 10:24:00 | What does Vista's inbuilt benchmarking have to say about your hardware and score? | Jen (38) | ||
| 688482 | 2008-07-13 10:33:00 | I'm using Home Premium. ATM it's at pre-SP1 status, although I've used SP1 as well. I haven't had any stability problems like that, with and without sp1. (reason I don't have sp1 atm is that I've just recently reinstalled windows and haven't gotten around to doing it yet...) Try looking around in Event Viewer to see if there are any errors that are displayed. Not sure exactly where to look there though.. (to get to event viewer, go start and type in event viewer - it should appear in the start menu) |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 688483 | 2008-07-13 11:16:00 | This may or may not have any effect - turn off windows indexing, if you are transferring large files Vista May ? be trying to index, which can slow down and use more system resources, which may relate to locking up - 1. Left click on My Computer 2. Right click on your hard drive 3. Left click on Properties 4. Click on General tab if not already selected 5. Uncheck 'Index this drive for faster searching' which should disable it. 6. You may need to repeat if you have additional hard drives this Here (www.howtogeek.com) may be of some help as well. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 688484 | 2008-07-13 21:03:00 | I copied 20GB of files from one drive to another without issues. I'm using SP1. What's your reliability index? Start orb > type perfmon > click Reliability Monitor. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 688485 | 2008-07-13 23:29:00 | Not looking great Attached file: monitor.jpg (www.imagef1.net.nz) (99 KB) , on one day last week i had explorer fail 3 times and rundll32 1ce. My performance base score 5.1. and i have just disabled indexing. and guess what? while i was doing this it stopped responding. :( Attached file: wow_wot_a_guess.jpg (www.imagef1.net.nz) (209 KB) | a helpless random (13059) | ||
| 688486 | 2008-07-14 00:25:00 | I didn't know about the Reliability & Performance Monitor. That's cool. Vista actually has a ton of great features but hardly anyone knows about them |
joshjnz (7844) | ||
| 688487 | 2008-07-15 08:08:00 | dont worry, im going to XP again, and have managed to copy the few hundred GB of files to my external using Ycopy, Thanks anyway everyone | a helpless random (13059) | ||
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