MrGKaplan
Established Member
Apologies for my realtive inexperience with Vista/PCs - hope someone can help with this frustrating turn of events!
New laptop is under a week old - Dell Inspiron 6400
120GB Hard Drive 1GB RAM Vista Home Premium Intel Core Duo 2 T5300 @ 1.73 Ghz
Windows Experience Index Score 3.1
Entered the world of Vista to find installing majority of software seems to make Vista freeze up, screen goes a transparent white and laptop becomes non-responsive. I cannot get to Task manager so have to force power-off the laptop and then I get a "Windows did not shutdown properly" boot up screen
I'm aware a lot of software is not Vista compatible but here is what I have attempted:
VLC - installed fine
Firefox - fine
MSN Messenger - fine
AVG 7.5 - fine
Realplayer-fine
Windows Media Player 11 - fine
Problems with:
Quicktime - would not install - caused laptop to freeze up and had to manually power off (I have since installed "Quicktime Alternative")
Daemon tools - same issues of freezing
Laptop was installed with Adobe Acrobat 7 - when i attempted to view a pdf file it asked for an upgrade - I attempted to download this to face the white screen of death and a frozen computer.
Attempted to installl Office 2007 Enterprise and it got as far as the install green bar (which had barely started) where it froze up and crashed the computer.
Since these constant crashes have been occuring Windows Explorer on a whole now seems to be a touch slower with pages such as my documents/control panel taking longer to appear.
So is this type of behaviour typical of Vista?! Or am I doing something wrong? Can anyone suggest what I can de to rectify the situation?
Do I need to reinstall Vista from the disc that came with laptop and start again? Or is there a possible hardware fault?
I'm rather dissapointed that such a new computer is causing me so many problems
Hope someone out there can help - many thanks in advance