How long?

[drquantum]

I have been having INCREDIBLE problems with Vista on my Toshiba Portege M700 tablet PC. About every couple of days, somewhere during the day the computer just freezes up entirely - can't close programs, can't even get the task manager to come up, etc. As such I can't do anything except turn the computer off. Then, when I turn it back on, of course it wants to boot back into safe mode. So I do that - then try restarting from within safe mode, and just about every time, when I try rebooting in that way, upon entering my password into the machine, the "Welcome" screen comes up and stays up for over an hour. Eventually (if I am patient) the computer actually comes up.

What could be the problem here? What sends Vista (as NEVER, EVER before with XP) into conniption fits like this? Is there anything I ought to investigate?

 

[dmex]

Hi Todd,

That would be a Driver or Service cause them problems, Try uninstalling your Antivirus/Firewall/Spybot programs first and these are usually the number one cause

Steven

 

[drquantum]

Hi Todd,

That would be a Driver or Service cause them problems, Try uninstalling your Antivirus/Firewall/Spybot programs first and these are usually the number one cause

Steven

That would be really great if I could uninstall anything in safe mode. It seems I cannot.

 

[wysiwyg]

I'd suggest a complete re-install of O/S, its fairly obvious its corrupted.

 

[swarfega]

I'd suggest a complete re-install of O/S, its fairly obvious its corrupted.

Before you do that though, at least give Windows Advisor the once over and see if it can fix any errors. https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads.aspx?SiteID=536