Need help with multiple problems with Vista Home Premium

Jack10525 · 08-19-2007, 07:00 AM

I have a HP DV6000T with Windows Vista Home Premium. It came preinstalled with Vista so I have no hardware or driver issues and all updates are current. My biggest complaint is IE7 constantly freezes up and needs to be restarted. I usually have multiple tabs open so all the pages have to close and this is becomming a real annoyance. It probably happens about every other day. Is there anyway to fix this? Also sometimes windows itself freezes up and I have to hard power it down. The system is very slow to boot and shutdown. I have turned off almost all startup programs with msconfig. I am running a core 2 duo 1.73 ghz and 1.5 gb of ram. I think it should be a little faster. I'm almost to the point of buying a second hard drive and just installing XP. If anybody has any tips and tricks to make vista actually perform like it should I would like to hear them.

Jack10525 · 08-19-2007, 07:28 AM

It just froze up right after I posted this. I had a few other tabs open and one stop responding. I waited because windows said it was trying to fix the problem. It didn't. I have never seen it fix the problem. God this is anoying.....

Dio1080 · 08-19-2007, 02:10 PM

Yeah, it happened to me too, and I have 2 gb of ram and running at 2.11GHz. How did I fix this problem, I went back to XP (^_^), until service pack 1 or 2 comes out for vista, I'm sticking with XP.

steveasorus · 08-30-2007, 04:13 AM

use mozilla firefox?

macdawg · 08-30-2007, 04:22 AM

tweakguides.com has a guide to go over basically anything vista, I'm sure if you went over it you would come up with some solutions but unfortunately its not a quick fix....

gurusan · 08-30-2007, 04:33 AM

The first thing I do when I buy any prebuilt computer is wipe it clean and install a clean OS.

Once you do this and use firefox you shouldn't have any complaints.

mophead740 · 08-30-2007, 07:10 AM

i think u should use firefox as well
also u should reinstall vista and get rid of all the crap that hp put there that you no doubt dont need!

MetalOwns · 08-30-2007, 03:07 PM

HP doesn't give out the OS disks...all they give you is a image restoration disk, which puts back all the crap that was already on the computer. So you'd have to get a new copy of the OS

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