Vista Freezing up Over Start Menu

JamesJ · External Since: Oct 28, 2009 Posts: 4

I am using Vista Home Basic x32 sp2.
When I pass the mouse pointer over a particular item on the start menu
Vista freezes.
It always happens when the pointer passes over the same item.

It also occurs sometimes when I try to drag an item to a different location
on the
start menu.

Any idea why this would happen?

James

ashvin · External Since: Sep 24, 2009 Posts: 10

What particular item is that.. is it a program or a file?

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ashvin

JamesJ · External Since: Oct 28, 2009 Posts: 4

It's an exe, for Active Disk Image, like most other items the are in my
start menu's
main pane.

I've uninned it and it doesn't happen anymore.

And I figured out why vista was freezing when I tried to move an item
by dragging. If I would drag the item over the exe in question vista would
freeze.

My system freezes also when I perform the same operations from Explorer in
the folder
with the executable.

But this just started happenning whne I added memory recently.
I ran the Memory Diagnostic Tool and no problems were reported.

James

"ashvin" <guest DeleteThis @unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> What particular item is that.. is it a program or a file?
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> ashvin

ashvin · External Since: Sep 24, 2009 Posts: 10

sweet, if you added memory try to see the virtual memory settings on My
computer > Properties> Advance and virtual memory settings.. the virtual
should be allocated x 1.5 more than the actual memory.. this can make
things better on your performance

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ashvin

JamesJ · External Since: Oct 28, 2009 Posts: 4

I've already set it to a permanent swap file of 3gb.
System runs well now except for that one anomily.

It was doing this prior to me setting a perminant swap file.

James

"ashvin" <guest.RemoveThis@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> sweet, if you added memory try to see the virtual memory settings on My
> computer > Properties> Advance and virtual memory settings.. the virtual
> should be allocated x 1.5 more than the actual memory.. this can make
> things better on your performance
>
>
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> ashvin