Advice needed please!

[wormtail]

Hello

I'm having a problem with Microsoft Vista.

All day yesterday I was on my computer fine. I went to bed and hopped on this morning and noticed that whatever I do (clicking browser button, pressing start button) practically anything, Vista freezes and I'm forced to manual reboot.

I did some research on the web but can't find anything that works. I went into safe mode, ran scans from AVG and Malwarebytes and they were both clean. I also went to msconfig and unchecked everything except Microsoft related files on startup but I still get the same problem.


The promblem is the freezing can happen whenever, it could be 10 seconds or 10 minutes, but this problem has only started today, and I've never seen this before!

Does anyone have any ideas why this happened overnight?

Thanks all!

-Wormtail

 

[usasma]

Please go to Start and type in "msinfo32.exe" (without the quotes) and press Enter
Save the report as an .nfo file, then zip up the .nfo file and upload/attach the .zip file with your next post.

This may give us some clues as to what is happening.

Also, you can monitor the system for excessive resource consumption. To do this, open up Task Manager by right clicking on the Task Bar.
Then select the Processes tab.
Then select the "Show processes from all users" button (in the lower left)
Then select the View menu item, then select "Select columns"
In the Select columns window, place checkmarks next to I/O Reads and I/O Other.
Click OK to accept the changes.
Resize the Task Manager window so you can see the most of the columns.
Wait for the system to freeze.
Look at the columns to see if there's anything that looks excessively high - if so, let us know the Image name of the process. FWIW - System Idle Process is supposed to have high CPU readings - anything else with high CPU readings is an issue.