odd performance issue hang lockup no apparent reason

Im experiencing a general slowness and occasional lockup that I cant figure out. Ive tried it on 2 different motherboards (one intel one nforce3) and they seem to have the same issue.
What happens is this: At some point any given window may not do anything when clicked (i.e. a control panel icon or link in IE etc). When this happens you cannot click anything else, including the start button until it decides to work. The window will often go to (not responding) for a while too.
During this time not even CTRL ALT DEL or CTRL SHIFT ESC will do anything.
The computer also will not restart or shut down even if you do manage to get the start menu to come up.
I *think* but cant be positive it is caused by either yahoo messenger or the CA free AV trial we get for beta 2 subscribers. Disabling those apps from starting up doesnt help though.
I've also tried turning off aero interface but it does the same thing. (even had the whole screen black out once because of this issue)
Any ideas?

I have a similar problem ... only worse.
For me, the entire system freezes for quite some time (> 2-3 minutes) No mouse, keyboard or any input whatsoever. Booting into Vista takes up to 10 (!!) minutes.
I expect a somewhat slower experience because this machine is an old Athlon XP 2000+ But it have 1.25 GB memory and an FX 5200 w/128MB VRAM.
What does surprise me is that, when I started, I experienced the Areo Glass at 1280x1024, yet now it will only give me Areo Express at that resolution.
Any thoughts on that?
Thanks.
"Jason" wrote:

Im experiencing a general slowness and occasional lockup that I cant figure out. Ive tried it on 2 different motherboards (one intel one nforce3) and they seem to have the same issue.
What happens is this: At some point any given window may not do anything when clicked (i.e. a control panel icon or link in IE etc). When this happens you cannot click anything else, including the start button until it decides to work. The window will often go to (not responding) for a while too.
During this time not even CTRL ALT DEL or CTRL SHIFT ESC will do anything.
The computer also will not restart or shut down even if you do manage to get the start menu to come up.
I *think* but cant be positive it is caused by either yahoo messenger or the CA free AV trial we get for beta 2 subscribers. Disabling those apps from starting up doesnt help though.
I've also tried turning off aero interface but it does the same thing. (even had the whole screen black out once because of this issue)
Any ideas?

I am exeriencing the same issue. I have no idea why its happening, but it just started happening all the sudden today. Used vista for 5 days and was working great until this started all the sudden.
I restarted in safe mode however, and the problem doesent happen.

If you have an antivirus installed, can you try disabling it or removing it and see if that fixes the problem?
-- Regards, Yuriy
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Im experiencing a general slowness and occasional lockup that I cant figure out. Ive tried it on 2 different motherboards (one intel one nforce3) and they seem to have the same issue.
What happens is this: At some point any given window may not do anything when clicked (i.e. a control panel icon or link in IE etc). When this happens you cannot click anything else, including the start button until it decides to work. The window will often go to (not responding) for a while too.
During this time not even CTRL ALT DEL or CTRL SHIFT ESC will do anything.
The computer also will not restart or shut down even if you do manage to get the start menu to come up.
I *think* but cant be positive it is caused by either yahoo messenger or the CA free AV trial we get for beta 2 subscribers. Disabling those apps from starting up doesnt help though.
I've also tried turning off aero interface but it does the same thing. (even had the whole screen black out once because of this issue)
Any ideas?