Vista 64bit issues

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

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Hi guys,

Been running Vista Business 64bit for 2 weeks now and to be honest, I like it. But it's not all plain sailing. I've got a few minor yet irritating issues.

Stuff seems to lock up for no reason for varying amounts of time. The most frequent candidate is Internet Explorer which will decide to completely lock up for up to a minute before carrying on as if nothing had happened.

Other oddness includes the fact that as I type this, I have no access to my desktop. The 'Show desktop' button has stopped working and Windows+D has suddenly stopped having any effect whatsoever. A few hours ago the desktop worked fine but if I clicked any icons on it, nothing happened. That sort of thing.

Why?

Cheers!
 
Have you overclocked anything? 64 bit os's are more sensitive. Also, are you sure your memory and proc are in good shape (i.e. no errors with 4-6 hours of memtest).

I've been running Vista Business 64 for over a year and never experienced any of the problems you are - which leads me to believe it's hardware related.
 
I finally changed my laptop to x64 Vista a couple of weeks ago, I get IE crashes and occasionally the laptop hangs on suspend. Very annoying...
 
Actually I've noticed this in the last month. IE has suddenly started locking up, and it's happening on both my home PC's and work and always on www.bbc.co.uk

It has never been an issue for the past year so I'm wondering if IE has had a patch that has caused it, or if bbc.co.uk is at fault. Any other page isn't a problem.

I keep firefox for emergencies but generally don't use it. I don't really rate it as it does nothing useful that IE doesn't, and lacks ActiveX.
 
[TW]Fox;12968662 said:
Hi guys,

Been running Vista Business 64bit for 2 weeks now and to be honest, I like it. But it's not all plain sailing. I've got a few minor yet irritating issues.

Stuff seems to lock up for no reason for varying amounts of time. The most frequent candidate is Internet Explorer which will decide to completely lock up for up to a minute before carrying on as if nothing had happened.

Other oddness includes the fact that as I type this, I have no access to my desktop. The 'Show desktop' button has stopped working and Windows+D has suddenly stopped having any effect whatsoever. A few hours ago the desktop worked fine but if I clicked any icons on it, nothing happened. That sort of thing.

Why?

Cheers!
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Have Task Manager up when it's deciding to be a pain and let us know the process that's taking up the resources.

Also how much RAM do you have?

I've got some bad memory and only running 1GB at the moment and Vista64 runs like absolute garbage.
 
Thank god, i thought i was the only one. It seems to be a recent update causing it, just freezes up completely, on various sites.

Only issue i've had (bar the infamous error event 15016).
 
Same issue here. The problem coincided for me with downloading Flash Player 10. When I disable FP10 in IE, the problem seems to disappear. Can anybody else confirm FP10 as the cause?
 
Actually the same happens to me when I use IE7 sometimes. Mostly use FF3 and have no problems there at all. It's weird.
 
Im getting the same after installing flash 10. Doesnt always happen but IE will randomly just lock and i have to open another one. The locked one will stop responding after about 5 mins and i can close it.
 
Same things been happeneing to me of late which leads me to believe a patch has caused it, all my hardware is stable and in perfect working order. Only IE effected.
 
crazybones said:
Same issue here. The problem coincided for me with downloading Flash Player 10. When I disable FP10 in IE, the problem seems to disappear. Can anybody else confirm FP10 as the cause?
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Yeah i suspected that also, although it has happened on here so i thought it might not be after all. Haven't disabled it mind you so i dont know for sure
 
philjohn said:
Have you overclocked anything? 64 bit os's are more sensitive
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Not in my experience. Any x64 issues are usually flaky drivers, not overclocking. Heck, my XP x64 install lasted two years on my previous setup - I never had a 32bit OS last that long. Which is why on this new machine, XP x64 has gone straight back on rather than get upgraded to Vista :)

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Sorry for the hijack Fox.
 
basically fox, ditch IE

install firefox and 'adblock plus' and select the 'easylist' subscription upon restart

ad free, stable and fast


also, what's your full hardware spec
 
yeah getting this in xp and vista in ie7 on certain pages, very annoying

on a side note been using opera just lately, all was fine till i broke down and installed flash, now getting program not responding there aswell

so i guess it is something to do with flash
 
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