In my brief, tortured love affair with Vista, the behavior you describe was commonplace. I can't stand it, and won't use it for any reason anymore. On my older home machine, right clicking anywhere on the desktop would sometimes cause 3 minutes or more of the spinning circle before the context menu would appear. A family member has a Core i7 with 6GB RAM, and when running Vista Ultimate x64 it was an utter and complete dog. I upgraded it to 7 the other day with the freebie "House Party" copy of 7 I received, and now the same machine positively screams.
This may not have answered your question, but I wouldn't completely rule out Vista itself as the cause of your woes. RS On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:42 AM, MarvinC <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone come across an issue on Vista Home Premium where once something's > clicked it just sits at the spinning cursor? It appears to be in a hung > state where using task manager or hardbooting is the only way to clear it. > Three Sony VAIO's are exhibiting the same issue yet MSE doesn't detect > anything. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
