Vista locks up or freezes

I have a 6 month old Dell XPS that shipped with Vista Premium. It is a dual
processor, with 4 gigs of RAM and a 500 GB. When I first boot the computer
is seems to be sluggish and if I try to use a program it will freeze. This
happens in IE 7, video games and MS Office programs.

What I have noticed is that if I let the machine run for about 5 minutes it
seems fine. I have started the Task Manager and switched to the Performance
Tab - as the "Cached" number gets higher the system becomes more stable -
e.g. if I start a program as the "Cached" number is below 700 then I will get
a freeze - but when "Cached" is above 1,500 then it runs smoothly.

I feel like I am running an old 386! Turn it on and go make coffee!

Any suggestions?

Try allocating at least 1024 MB's to your page file. Control Panel > System
and Maintenance > System > Advanced System Settings. Hit the "Settings..."
button for the Performance box and go to the "Advanced" tab. Specify a
minimum and maximum. I use 3072 personally, and I run smooth as butter.
Also, be sure to maintain familiarity with your list of startup programs.
Also, It's important to defrag after any major bouts of installing or
uninstalling software. As a matter of fact as a rule of thumb, a defrag
after every movement of about 20 gigs is probably being too lax.
--
My Blog: [URL - http://dynsecks.blogspot.com/]
My System Specs:
Dell Inspiron 1520, 2GB DDR2 667 RAM, 2.2GHZ Intel Centrino C2D /w 4MB L2
Cache
160GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache HDD, nVidia GeForce 8600M GT, Vista Home Premium
*I haven't had any issues caused by Vista that couldn't be fixed in five
minutes or less.
--
"Old DOS Sys Admin" <Old DOS Sys > wrote in
message news:EB8A8AD9-BB7D-40DF-8DB0-...
>I have a 6 month old Dell XPS that shipped with Vista Premium. It is a
>dual
> processor, with 4 gigs of RAM and a 500 GB. When I first boot the
> computer
> is seems to be sluggish and if I try to use a program it will freeze. This
> happens in IE 7, video games and MS Office programs.
>
> What I have noticed is that if I let the machine run for about 5 minutes
> it
> seems fine. I have started the Task Manager and switched to the
> Performance
> Tab - as the "Cached" number gets higher the system becomes more stable -
> e.g. if I start a program as the "Cached" number is below 700 then I will
> get
> a freeze - but when "Cached" is above 1,500 then it runs smoothly.
>
> I feel like I am running an old 386! Turn it on and go make coffee!
>
> Any suggestions?

I have an XPS 420, Windows Vista home premium and as im typing this, I have 1958 MB of physical memory cached, but im still getting short freezes and lock ups. I have 3069 total, but only 5-15 free.

> On Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:46 PM Old DOS Sys Admi wrote:

> I have a 6 month old Dell XPS that shipped with Vista Premium. It is a dual
> processor, with 4 gigs of RAM and a 500 GB. When I first boot the computer
> is seems to be sluggish and if I try to use a program it will freeze. This
> happens in IE 7, video games and MS Office programs.
>
> What I have noticed is that if I let the machine run for about 5 minutes it
> seems fine. I have started the Task Manager and switched to the Performance
> Tab - as the "Cached" number gets higher the system becomes more stable -
> e.g. if I start a program as the "Cached" number is below 700 then I will get
> a freeze - but when "Cached" is above 1,500 then it runs smoothly.
>
> I feel like I am running an old 386! Turn it on and go make coffee!
>
> Any suggestions?


>> On Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:30 PM Dyndrilliac wrote:

>> Try allocating at least 1024 MB's to your page file. Control Panel > System
>> and Maintenance > System > Advanced System Settings. Hit the "Settings..."
>> button for the Performance box and go to the "Advanced" tab. Specify a
>> minimum and maximum. I use 3072 personally, and I run smooth as butter.
>> Also, be sure to maintain familiarity with your list of startup programs.
>> Also, It's important to defrag after any major bouts of installing or
>> uninstalling software. As a matter of fact as a rule of thumb, a defrag
>> after every movement of about 20 gigs is probably being too lax.
>> --
>> My Blog: [URL - http://dynsecks.blogspot.com/]
>> My System Specs:
>> Dell Inspiron 1520, 2GB DDR2 667 RAM, 2.2GHZ Intel Centrino C2D /w 4MB L2
>> Cache
>> 160GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache HDD, nVidia GeForce 8600M GT, Vista Home Premium
>> *I haven't had any issues caused by Vista that couldn't be fixed in five
>> minutes or less.
>> --
>> "Old DOS Sys Admin" <Old DOS Sys > wrote in
>> message news:EB8A8AD9-BB7D-40DF-8DB0-...


>> Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
>> Book Review: Excel 2010 - The Missing Manual [OReilly]
>> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/7d211741-221d-46c7-b9c3-d34bf84568be/book-review-excel-2010--the-missing-manual-oreilly.aspx