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Taskbar/Start-AllPrograms freeze.
Hey there, long time reader, first time poster here.
I'll get right to it, ever since I got back from work earlier today my computer's been acting strange. Booting up now takes forever (4-5min) and during boot the CPU's seems to working at 110% judging by the sound they make. All seems fine when I get to the login screen however.
Anyways, the real issue is the taskbar/start menu, the taskbar tends to freeze whenever I alt-tab between multiple windows, and when opening the start menu and then hitting "All Programs" it freezes aswell. I can minimize windows, click on shortcuts and play games while it's frozen though. At first I thought it might be my second HDD which has slowly been getting worse since about a week ago. Thankfully I had nothing installed on it so I disconnected it. Turned out the HDD wasn't the culprit.
Anywho, I've been looking around, looking for people with similar issues for quite a while now, and I came across this thread Start Menu Freeze . That guy had the exact same issue as I did but on a W7 build way back. (7048) All he had to do was update to a newer build and the issue fixed itself, unfortunately that won't work for me, seeing as I'm on 7600.
Anyways, here are my current specs;
Windows 7, home premium build 7600
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Intel Core Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz
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ASUS P5Q SE2, P45, Socket-775
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Corsair TWIN2X PC6400 DDR2 4GB KIT CL5
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Gainward GeForce 9800GT 1GB PhysX CUDA
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Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA2
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Corsair TX 650W PSU
I really appreciate your time and hopefully you can make more sense of this than me. Now if you'll excuse me I'll continue searching the webs for more clues. Takecare!
(Ps If I've left something out, please tell me, I'm horribly bad at computers.)
Last edited by flicker455; 03 May 2010 at 01:39.