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| Thread ID: 80880 | 2007-07-08 01:02:00 | Dell and Vista | joholdaway (12527) | Press F1 |
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| 566879 | 2007-07-08 01:02:00 | Hi there all Just got a new computer from Dell running Windows Home Basic Vista- Dimension C521. I have encountered two problems - can anyone help? Two problems: 1. When I shut down my computer from the start menu, it doesn't actually turn off (most times). It displays "Shutting Down" and it actually never shuts down. I have to manually turn it off by holding the button on the front of the tower. This has happened over 5 times. 2. I finding my computer very slow performing regular tasks - open and closing simple text files for example. It seems to spend a lot of loading and making loading sounds, but not actually doing anythinig. Is this a valid complaint? |
joholdaway (12527) | ||
| 566880 | 2007-07-08 01:09:00 | 2. I finding my computer very slow performing regular tasks - open and closing simple text files for example. It seems to spend a lot of loading and making loading sounds, but not actually doing anythinig. Is this a valid complaint? How much RAM do you have on your machine? I dont know about vista but all those loud sounds sound like your hard drive, I guess vista is using alot of virtual memory. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 566881 | 2007-07-08 02:41:00 | Your comp may not be set up to 'shut down' when you hit the button... it could be set to go into 'power saving mode. There are quite a few options for shut down in Vista. You can go into the control panel then click on power options icon to see the choices (I prefer a straight shut down/power off when I press a button). I bought a laptop with Home premium and 512mb of ram... it went fine even with aero effects running, so the amount of ram you have is probably not too much of an issue unless you are trying to run lots of programs at once. The other option is a program that is not loading properly on start-up... and not unloading on shut-down, making the computer 'hang'. If you don't know much about comps and have only just purchased it, I'd be inclined to get Dell to check it out- something's not right. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 566882 | 2007-07-08 03:05:00 | ... I bought a laptop with Home premium and 512mb of ram... so the amount of ram you have is probably not too much of an issue Running Vista with only 512 MB RAM ... ?!??? I don't quite agree with your above statements ... but I maybe wrong. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 566883 | 2007-07-08 03:25:00 | Running Vista with only 512 MB RAM ... ?!??? I don't quite agree with your above statements ... but I maybe wrong. Vista works fine with 512MB of ram. Mine is only using 500MB most of the time anyway. However with the price of ram the way it is why would anyone have a machine with oly 512MB. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 566884 | 2007-07-08 03:39:00 | Could also be infected, try scanning your computer with your antivirus and antispyware progs. | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 566885 | 2007-07-08 03:57:00 | Running Vista with less than 1GB of RAM is alway going to create issues. Whilst it is possible to run Vista with less memory, I would think to get a decent amount of performance from the system one would install 1GB of memory at the very least to make things run a little smoother. | chiefnz (545) | ||
| 566886 | 2007-07-08 04:15:00 | Vista works fine with 512MB of ram . Like XP runs with 256mb . :yuck: |
pctek (84) | ||
| 566887 | 2007-07-08 05:43:00 | Being a Dell it most likely has Norton Internet Security or Norton 360. :yuck: Remove that and install Avast or AVG. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 566888 | 2007-07-08 06:24:00 | Like XP runs with 256mb.:yuck: Or 64MB. I've seen it done, works fine. The only reason Dell would sell a PC with 512MB of RAM is so that they can charge to upgrade to 1GB. 1GB of their type of RAM costs about $20 more than 512MB. |
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