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Nigel Atkins · Apr 20, 2009

i have been having this problem for some months now and it would happen every 2 days or so. but now it is happening more often and is starting to affect my online racing so its time to fix it.
i tried googling the error but am getting lots of different fixes so am asking here :wink2:

Adam Vaughan · Apr 20, 2009

I get it when I click my downloads page and the files are on thumbnails. It just gives up and wen i close it the bottom start bar disapears is that what it is??

Trebor901 · Apr 20, 2009

what are the specs of your system? im running Vista Ultimate 64 with Quad Core and 4gb RAM and it runs as good if not better than XP ever did.

Nigel Atkins · Apr 20, 2009

my specs are fine, i have duel core and 4gb ram.

it is totaly random, it manily does it when i`m browsing an open window but recently it does it when i`m playing racing games

Damian Henderson · Apr 20, 2009

Nigel Atkins said:
i tried googling the error but am getting lots of different fixes so am asking here :wink2:

Try following one of them Nigel, sure it will help :good:

Nigel Atkins · Apr 20, 2009

Damian Dainhumain said:
Try following one of them Nigel, sure it will help :good:

the problem is which 1 lol, i dont want to make things worse :laugh2:

Damian Henderson · Apr 20, 2009

You talking about the actual os explorer or internet explorer?

Nigel Atkins · Apr 20, 2009

os explorer

Damian Henderson · Apr 20, 2009

Ok thought so.

Dan Coldrick · Apr 20, 2009

Nigel can you be a bit more specific? Can you make it crash/hang by doing a certain thing or is it totally random?

Nigel Atkins · Apr 20, 2009

Dan Coldrick said:
Nigel can you be a bit more specific? Can you make it crash/hang by doing a certain thing or is it totally random?

i`m affraid its totaly random, i can be moving files around, watching an avi or playing GTL.

my pc has been on all day today and i`ve moved files watched an avi and no probs at all today grrrrrrrrrrrr

Dan Coldrick · Apr 20, 2009

Nigel Atkins said:
i`m affraid its totaly random, i can be moving files around, watching an avi or playing GTL.

my pc has been on all day today and i`ve moved files watched an avi and no probs at all today grrrrrrrrrrrr

Hmmmm, have you tried defragging? Did you change your hard drive performance?-

http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1097

Nigel Atkins · Apr 20, 2009

Dan Coldrick said:
Hmmmm, have you tried defragging? Did you change your hard drive performance?-

http://www.ocmodshop.com/ocmodshop.aspx?a=1097

pc is set auto defrag and i`ve just done the HD performance thingy

Dan Coldrick · Apr 20, 2009

Try a manual defrag anyway

Damian Henderson · Apr 20, 2009

Done any virus scans?

CCleaner to?

Nigel Atkins · Apr 20, 2009

Damian Dainhumain said:
Done any virus scans?

CCleaner to?

ran AVG on saturday and CCleaner today

Jamie R · Apr 20, 2009

Suppose complete OS install is not an option?

Nigel Atkins · Apr 20, 2009

Jamie Rushworth said:
Suppose complete OS install is not an option?

it`s always an option, but one i would rather avoid :wink2:

Adam Vaughan · Apr 21, 2009

I think I have the same problem as you nigel. Running a quad core on 3gb ram. And mine is random but as my first post said it did it alot on the downloads page. gona try that Hard drive thing on mine so thanks fot that dan :good:

Damian Henderson · Apr 21, 2009

Have you tried doing a scan disk check?

Right click the drive then properties; Second tab (tools) click "Check now" Then on Error checking tool (first). Select the first option i "automaticly fix system errors" If it ask you to do it on the next reboot, then do so.

Might not fix it, but worth a try.

I've only got experience with 32b Vista so never experienced this problem, so just throwing up idea's.

It's more likely a problem with one of the Vista services that are running causing this problem.