[Vista User]

Hello,

Im running Vista on a Vostro 1510 laptop, 3gig RAM, 1.8GHz dual core processor, just a pastime computer. I've had the laptop for ~4 months now, and in the past month it has been locking up and acting strange. Anywhere from a few minutes to an hour after startup the bottom toolbar including the lower-left Vista icon will freeze. It can be fixed for a few minutes by doing CTRL-ALT-DELETE which will un-freeze the toolbar, but it often locks right back up in a few minutes. Also, when navigating through folders or webpages, pretty much anything with a forward/backward navigation, it will randomly flip back through previously visited pages to the front page. When this happens I can still navigate through webpages, but every new page must be opened in a new tab, which you can imagine is very annoying.

This happens ~half the time I use the laptop, and normal programs run perfectly fine. The only thing thats really affected is web-browsing and navigating through folders in My Computer, and the lower desktop toolbar freezing. If you need any more info just let me know.

Any help is appreciated,

Thanks.

Edited by Vista User, 12 June 2009 - 07:12 PM.

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