I have a HP Slimline S3713W running Vista Home Premium. The machine recently started freezing after initial boot is complete. I'll click on an application & it just freezes up. I then do a hard shut down. After booting up again the machine will run fine the rest of the day. I havent made any major changes of late & I've always tried to maintain a healthy system. Any suggestions?
Slimline Keeps Freezing!
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That suggests to me, (and I must admit quite possibly incorrectly), that your registry has two sets of instructions for the same thing. The first set is the primary set, and it is defective, - ergo the freezing. The second set gets defaulted to after an unsuccesful try with the first set, and it works.
Question : Do you have a backup dating from before this problem started ?
Because if possible it would seem to me that you want to get rid of that first set; hence restore the registry. Problem is I'm not sure that would delete said set. You might have to format, to get rid of it, then reload "Windopes" then restore from a good backup to get where you want to be.
Question : Do you have a backup dating from before this problem started ?
Because if possible it would seem to me that you want to get rid of that first set; hence restore the registry. Problem is I'm not sure that would delete said set. You might have to format, to get rid of it, then reload "Windopes" then restore from a good backup to get where you want to be.
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JHM..thats deep! Man I hope its not that. I'll look into that as a final resort if nothing else surfaces. To answer Shlouski, it freezes after windows boots. Specifically, and always, shortly after I start Firefox. One other thing I failed to mention in the initial post, surface scans have been coming back as "failed" on my weekly scans for about the last 3 weeks.
Well, you could try a "System Restore" to some date preceeding all this and see if that works; but if it doesn''t, I would have to recommend formatting "C" and starting over, unless you can get a better suggestion from someone else.
The reason for this is that "Hard Shutdowns" are likely to damage your HDD(s). I don't know what are the latest methods of their inner workings, but it used to be that HDDs worked something like an old time "Record Player". The "Read Heads" worked like the "Tone Arm" on a record player, reading the platters on the HDD something like the "Needle" on a record player read the record.
The big difference is the "Read Heads", unlike the "Needle", on a record player, are NOT supposed to touch the platters on the HDD. Instead they float just above the platters, (HELD UP THERE BY AN AIR CUSHION GENERATED BY THE SPINNING OF THE PLATTERS), and read the platters magnetically. Now before you shutdown a computer, you are supposed to "PARK" the "Read Heads", - something like putting the tone arm of a record player on its stand. Once the heads are parked it becomes safe to shut down, which collapses the air cushion supporting the Read Heads. BUT if they are out over the spinning platters, air cushion COLLAPSE > HIT > BOUNCE > HIT > BOUNCE > HIT > BOUNCE > SCRAPE SCRAPE
The reason for this is that "Hard Shutdowns" are likely to damage your HDD(s). I don't know what are the latest methods of their inner workings, but it used to be that HDDs worked something like an old time "Record Player". The "Read Heads" worked like the "Tone Arm" on a record player, reading the platters on the HDD something like the "Needle" on a record player read the record.
The big difference is the "Read Heads", unlike the "Needle", on a record player, are NOT supposed to touch the platters on the HDD. Instead they float just above the platters, (HELD UP THERE BY AN AIR CUSHION GENERATED BY THE SPINNING OF THE PLATTERS), and read the platters magnetically. Now before you shutdown a computer, you are supposed to "PARK" the "Read Heads", - something like putting the tone arm of a record player on its stand. Once the heads are parked it becomes safe to shut down, which collapses the air cushion supporting the Read Heads. BUT if they are out over the spinning platters, air cushion COLLAPSE > HIT > BOUNCE > HIT > BOUNCE > HIT > BOUNCE > SCRAPE SCRAPE
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