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win7 faults?
Hi
new to forum and if I had any hair I would be considered a very silver surfer so treat me gently!
Upgraded my system which was running xp pro to a quadcore system and installed windows 7 ultimate 64bit so as to recognise the 4gb Ram.
Had immense problems with system hanging/running slow and many many occurences of "program not responding" in progs like photoshop cs/ie8/thunderbird etc, usually finishing up with the system hung and only a forced reboot ending my plight!
Checked memory using memchecker and hardrives using seatools iso running for hours and all ok.
Referred back to PC supplier and after many checks by them they could not sort out so we put in an upgraded mobo which was w7 compliant and same probs occurred. sent back one of my harddrives back to seagate for exchange (even though it checked out ok)
I formatted and installed w7 as 32bit in case there was compatiblility issues and same same!
Whilst I can understand photoshop cs causing some problems I cannot understand why issues should arise with ie8 (and now ie9beta) in some cases when selected from a link within thunderbird it opens up to 9 copies of ie.
Since I cannot find any fault with the system...is there inherent faults within windows 7 that can cause these problems?