I hate windows 7

[gladson1976]

yes i am talking about firefox. I thought the changeover to IE would have probably made it fairly obvious.

What addons do you have installed in Firefox ?
Some poorly written addons can freeze everything.

Try running Firefox in Safe mode.

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode

You can also try uninstalling Firefox and reinstalling it.

 

[Rogerc]

New to Win7 as well.

Hi, I had XP running for years without any problems, it was bullet proof, then the MB went pop and fried it's self. So 2 weeks ago I bought a new PC wth Win7 home premium on it, that was the start of my troubles. I don't think a day has gone by without trouble, anyhow, some of the tips I have found which have helped are (1) remove AVG9 if installed (2) Adobe flash, disable hardware accelleration. I hope this helps you a bit.

 

[boohbah]

yes i am talking about firefox. I thought the changeover to IE would have probably made it fairly obvious.

i appreciate you vexed with your pc however as you are the

one asking for help it would be prudent to remain polite

!

Apologies. I am at the end of my tether,

no probs ,we've all been there

 

[johndh]

ihatewin7

Your reaction seems close to my own when I first installed window 7 64bit. I would stick around these forums and ask a few questions. There is enough brain power here to sort things out, I'm sure. My own problems were mainly due to a crap configuration by the computer builder, and a whole load of out of date drivers. 90% sorted by these forums and my guess is, remaining problems 'might' get sorted with Service Pack 1, when it arrives.

However, I could go for a power mac, equivalent spec apart from RAID 1 + 0 would cost me around £6k Or, work at it and save £££K's, the latter option is for me. The result is, I admit, maybe not as stable as a mac, but, I have a PC work horse that can open as many apps as I want, open over 100 full res raw images at the same time in PS CS5 (just because I can ) and run Premiere CS5 as well.

Installed software: Office 2007, Adobe CS5 (full monty), Firefox, iTunes, Capture NX2. That's about it.

 

[whs]

I suggest you have a look into the Event Viewer to see whether any unusual events were recorded. It is obvious that your system is defunct somewhere. We'll just have to find the cause and the Event Viewer is a good starting point.
Go to Start > Right click on Computer > Manage > Event Viewer - or type Event Viewer into Start/search and hit Enter

 

[Anthony]

Have a look in task manager click show 'processes from all users' then click the cpu tab so it sorts by highest usage and look to see what's eating all you cpu cycles!!

 

[Harvey Meale]

Hi ihatewin7,

I failed to mention that malware is also a likely possibility. Have you run any scans recently?

Thanks,
Harvey Meale

 

[BomberAF]

ihatewin7.

The first add on you may want to try to disable would be the McAfee site advisor, I have had issues were my PC cpu shot up to 100%. After some investigation I pin pointed the problem at being the site advisor.

 

[whs]

ihatewin7.

The first add on you may want to try to disable would be the McAfee site advisor, I have had issues were my PC cpu shot up to 100%. After some investigation I pin pointed the problem at being the site advisor.

Hmm, I do understand that some people have problems with the McAfee AV suite (that I do not use). But I do use the McAfee Site Advisor on several systems and never had a problem with that.

 

[Zardoc]

Instead of a clean install, how about disabling all non ms services and startup through msconfig just to see if it still purrs.

 

[MacGyvr]

I think it's obvious that there is something corrupted in this installation. Trying to fix it only prolongs the agony and frustration. I think the OP should wipe, format and reinstall Win 7, then install any missing drivers, followed by Firefox. At that point, he should STOP and evaluate the performance of the system before continuing to install ANY additional software.

 

[whs]

I think it's obvious that there is something corrupted in this installation. Trying to fix it only prolongs the agony and frustration. I think the OP should wipe, format and reinstall Win 7, then install any missing drivers, followed by Firefox. At that point, he should STOP and evaluate the performance of the system before continuing to install ANY additional software.

+1, I would vote for that too.

 

[1Bowtie]

I think it's obvious that there is something corrupted in this installation. Trying to fix it only prolongs the agony and frustration. I think the OP should wipe, format and reinstall Win 7, then install any missing drivers, followed by Firefox. At that point, he should STOP and evaluate the performance of the system before continuing to install ANY additional software.

+2 good call MacGyvr

 

[CarlTR6]

I think it's obvious that there is something corrupted in this installation. Trying to fix it only prolongs the agony and frustration. I think the OP should wipe, format and reinstall Win 7, then install any missing drivers, followed by Firefox. At that point, he should STOP and evaluate the performance of the system before continuing to install ANY additional software.

Make that a +3. Spot on advice.

 

[Layback Bear]

A big + 4 here. Then I would make a restore point and update Windows which will make another restore point. If every thing goes well you have a point to return to if needed as you continue.

 

[Petey7]

+5. A clean install will fix 1) any problems with corrupted system files, 2) remove any viruses, and 3) fix any current problems with poorly installed software.

Since it was never answered, what AV do you use?

These tutorials will help make sure what you do is a clean install, will the least likely hood of problems.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/31402-clean-install-upgrade-windows-7-version.html

 

[s0c9]

Before I tried a full re-install I would check that my video drivers are up to date.
I had an issue with it freezing like you when I first ran Win7. Turned out my video drivers were not current and the card was lacking, so I upgraded.
Might be worth a try.

Also which version of Win7 are you running.. there are differences!
and which version of FF. The original 3.5* had a memory leak that would cause it to hang the system up after a while (on my PC anyway), so I moved to Chrome and have not looked back.
Still use FF (3.6.8 currently) at work, but not at home.

 

[ihatewin7]

Wow, you guys are awesome. Thank you all. I will have a go at your suggestions tonight and let you know what it is. I think firefox is probably the bandit in this picture. But hey it could be anything. I still don't have 100% faith that I can work with WIN7 in the same manner as I work with XP. This may change with the forthcoming service pack.

 

[ihatewin7]

oh i use Sophos AV. We get it free from work.

 

[whs]

oh i use Sophos AV. We get it free from work.

Suggest you use MSE. It is also free and better suited for Win. Plus it is better all together.