Vista seems to be crapping out

[Milliteq_CEO]

OK, well I have a Dell XPS 400, Windows Vista Home Premium, Pentium D 3.20 Ghz, 1022 MB RAM.

It always freezes and it is getting ridiculous. I did a spyware check about 1000 times, following the directions one of the threads here and found no spyware. I defragged it a bunch of times but that isn't doing anything..

Please help a n00b out. Thanks!

 

[KSoD]

So what is it doing? Cant answer if you dont saw what is wrong. Did you install bad drivers or software that isnt Vista compatible?

 

[Milliteq_CEO]

It just freezes constantly. Sometimes one after another... it usually takes about 2 minutes for the computer to respond.

 

[KSoD]

What applicaitons are you running when it freezes?

 

[atomic tofu]

did a search
Live Search: Dell

is dell service that bad?

The xps 400 is about 2 years old? This a legit Vista you are using?
might have to do a memory test check

also, not just defrag but run chkdsk yet?

 

[veedubfreak]

Its a dell. It could be either the memory or the hard drive. Dell uses utter crap for both of those parts.

 

[KSoD]

Its a dell. It could be either the memory or the hard drive. Dell uses utter crap for both of those parts.

Its not that bad. Ihave a Dimension 8400 and my HDD is going just fine. I have replaced my RAM though.:laughing:

 

[Milliteq_CEO]

FireFox, Windows Media Player 11, and Azureus, most of the time... Occasionally my mom will have IE up too.

 

[KSoD]

It could be that you have to much running at the same time and it bogs the system down.

 

[Milliteq_CEO]

well, shouldn't these "new age" computers be able to handle FF, WMP, and IE at once? i mean, christ what is the point of paying so much money for garbage?