Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit Hangs

[Stuge]

Hello guys ,

I have vaio VSN-CS27 laptop .Everything was fine 3 days back ,but now I'm facing a werid problem .Windows hangs up ,while I'm working on something or the other .Even Ctrl+alt+del doesn't work .It just a random freeze every now and then .no BSOD or nothing .

Antivirus : Mcafee installed.

regards .

Edited October 5, 2009 by Stuge

[Stuge]

anyone ?

[Stuge]

anyway ,Vaio is asking for $15 (for Win 7 ) + $25 for upgrade .I guess I should go for it .Windows Vista 64bit is terrible in comparison to 32bit .I never had randon hangs with 32bit on my desktop ,but this is a serious issue with Vista 64bit .

[Timothy J. Lanza]

I never had random hangs with 32-bit on my desktop, but this is a serious issue with Vista 64-bit .

I've seen basically the same thing. I purchased a new hard-drive for my HP dv6000 CTO. I had 64-bit install discs that came with the Vista Ultimate I bought for my desktop, so I put 64-bit Home Premium with the original key on the new HD. You can do this with any version; 32-bit Vista discs are the same across versions, as are the 64-bit discs. The CD key you feed to the installer determines which version (Home, Premium, Ultimate, or Business) gets installed.

I can't find any particular cause, so I'm calling it "random". The system appears to lock up, with only the mouse cursor responding. Interestingly, it seems that the Aero desktop compositing is still working, because I can't type or open any new applications, but I can switch active windows.

Anyway, after a minute or three, the system comes back. Interestingly, it appears that it was paying attention, because anything I told it to do while it was "locked up" actually happens all at once - new windows open, menus pop up, files close, etc.