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[FouGilang]

i dunno if it just me or it's another microsoft fault, but when i put that "a lot of windows 7 freeze", i got a hell lot of similar problem without any success repair reported

the problem is friggin FREEZE (yeah, you read it right). i don't care about 7 being a brand new microsoft's innovation or whatever, it is freezing me out like crazy and getting worse, and worse, and worse, by every time i use it (i assume that it will be ruined my pc in about 24x7 hours)
oh, and if you ask me when it freeze, i would say it freeze anytime, at random. it can be such a sexy, smooth like a jet plane, yet it can be such a disaster, freezes up to 2 minutes to wait by every minutes. i have bored with that box saying "Microsoft Windows : The application is not responding. The program may respond again if you wait. Do you want to end this process?" hell yeah, end the process! (and the windows will be stuck, freezing with that transparent gray screen...)

have you guys experience this? i would like to know how you go through this thing. i simply cannot continue my work in windows 7 (reverted back to xp and ubuntu, fortunately they are still there)

[legend112]

FouGilang, on Nov 17 2009, 02:43 PM, said:

i dunno if it just me or it's another microsoft fault, but when i put that "a lot of windows 7 freeze", i got a hell lot of similar problem without any success repair reported

the problem is friggin FREEZE (yeah, you read it right). i don't care about 7 being a brand new microsoft's innovation or whatever, it is freezing me out like crazy and getting worse, and worse, and worse, by every time i use it (i assume that it will be ruined my pc in about 24x7 hours)
oh, and if you ask me when it freeze, i would say it freeze anytime, at random. it can be such a sexy, smooth like a jet plane, yet it can be such a disaster, freezes up to 2 minutes to wait by every minutes. i have bored with that box saying "Microsoft Windows : The application is not responding. The program may respond again if you wait. Do you want to end this process?" hell yeah, end the process! (and the windows will be stuck, freezing with that transparent gray screen...)

have you guys experience this? i would like to know how you go through this thing. i simply cannot continue my work in windows 7 (reverted back to xp and ubuntu, fortunately they are still there)

oh geez windows 7 is also not stable?!! lol!

honestly im not surprised, microsoft has a way of dishing out software they aint finished creating then smash bugs after making sales, which suck as i feel its more like cheating the customer.

try not to run so many programs mate. how much is your ram? before i slam microsoft like im known to do (lol) it might be your ram actually, the specs of your pc might have a lot to do with your computer freezing.

[FouGilang]

Ram?
I have 4gb of ram in dual mode, and they never happened to have issues in xp (except that booting time issue, i don't know what it boot anyway...) and ubuntu (except for playing games...). Do you really think it want more?

[Soviet Rathe]

What's your complete computer specs?
Go to control panel > system
Your RAM isn't the problem so something else is. maybe a low processor speed?

[rayzoredge]

I have not experienced this sort of problem at all, but I do have a slightly similar issue. Windows 7 itself runs like a charm, but it doesn't seem to play nicely with some programs. Firefox 3.5.5 loves to become unresponsive at times and Fallout 3 likes to crash randomly... not often, but enough to bug me when I'm in the middle of a quest and I don't save it after playing it for 20 minutes. Firefox, strangely, doesn't crash... it just becomes unresponsive. Microsoft PowerPoint (from Office XP) also doesn't play nicely, sometimes crawling with a 2.13GHz dual core processor and 4GB of RAM. (That's rather unacceptable... and I'd hate to have to upgrade to Office 2007, although OpenOffice may be a foreseeable replacement.)

Other than those minor issues, Windows 7 seems to run pretty damn well in my book, up to par with XP and much, much better than the sluggish feel of Vista.

Do you think that it might be your programs that aren't playing nicely with Windows 7 or vice versa? Maybe you're attempting to run Windows 7 on a machine that theoretically is able to run it, but shouldn't be? Performance benchmarks suggest that W7 is comparable with XP in almost every performance test (except for networking, which W7 completely kills XP with awesome figures), but I don't know if W7 taxes a machine more than XP would. Try running your programs in a compatibility mode or run them under XP mode to see if that works without the frequent freezing and crashing.

Like I said, W7 is pretty solid in my book. For an initial release, it's pretty damn good, considering that I usually wait until SP2 to expect it to work quasi-flawlessly.

Edited by rayzoredge, 17 November 2009 - 06:15 PM.

[The Simpleton]

I've never heard of anyone reporting such a problem till now so I'm sorry to say that it appears the problem lies with your computer configuration No matter how fast it may be than Vista, 7 still needs a lot of RAM to run smoothly and without it you're constantly reminded of Vista!

[Ash-Bash]

It must be your computer, I am running windows 7 it has never frozen or crashed for me yet. What is your CPU & How much RAM do you have?, Also get the desktop cpu thing and adverage your ram and CPU. It must be your computer as it has never crashed on BETA nor Ultimate which I am running now.

[FouGilang]

No, i think it's not my computer. I've tried win7 since rc periodically, and now i use win7 ultimate. After those 'smooth days' like 3-5 days, my win7 start to randomly freezes. I said it 'freeze', not 'crash'.
Those who tried 7 must know that white transparent screen when your programs not responding. It is like that, but worse. i can't click anything, can't alt-tab, can't open tasK manager. simply everything in my screen is not responding >.>
At first i thought it was because those tune up thingy, so i re-installed. But sadly it doesn't solve anything though.
First it just fire fox, then open office, then internet download manager, then yahoo messenger, then almost everything have 'not responding' issue.

I have 4gb of ram, intel 2 duo @2.20g, ati radeon x600 card
Any suggestion?

[Soviet Rathe]

Well your computer isn't lacking resources. what about partitions? when you installed it did you have any partitions in your HD with files on it? imo it's best to reformat everything including those partitions.

[kleong]

Hahaha... this is just so microsoft. Rarely do their products get launched without hiccups, big or small. Look out for a patch soon.

[rmills]

I've never had a problem with windows 7, the only problem I might have from them is having firefox randomly crash when there is a script running

[FouGilang]

Ah, i think i found the problem: program compatibility issue

It didn't happen when i just 'power on my computer and browse the web', but when i started to do my works, it went to not responding. I don't know if it true and which one cause the problem though, i guess I'll have to do through check whatever application running when the system goes white again

I'll see it for some days beforE claim victory

[The Simpleton]

Hmm so you're running a program that 7 doesn't support? I've never seen that problem occur before....if you find out what that program is you could try using compatibility mode, isn't it? Well I hope you find the fix soon

[andresf91]

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program compatibility issue

IS a problem of Microsoft. If we can't run Firefox properly without it becoming unresponsive, then Windows 7 has a BIG problem.
Am I too nasty-minded to think this wouldn't be unintentional? Because I mean, you can have some drawbacks running ol' Office 97, or even Firefox 1.0, but you can't have problems running Firefox 3.5.5
I believe it's a coward way of trying to draw some people back to junky Internet Explorer

[jlhaslip]

I don't have any windows 7 issues in Ubuntu.

[FouGilang]

Okay, I think i found it
It's the gtown and nyplatform from 'you can dance', and the audacity 1.3 beta
When they both working and i added one more program or more, it'll be white screen sooner or later
Phew, and it seems that other recording programs causes it too

Oh, and restaurant city seems to crash my fire fox too, but i think it was because my poor driveR of radeon x600 because it was so LAG there

[rayzoredge]

jlhaslip, on Nov 28 2009, 08:05 PM, said:

I don't have any windows 7 issues in Ubuntu.

Well played. I see what you did there.

[iGuest]

Similar problems with windows 7Windows 7 Freezes (again)

hi, I've been having this problems too, it freezes for 2 min and then go back to normal. It's a little more exact for me when this happens, it has something to do with .Gif files, when I install a programs with gif files it hangs for 2 minutes for each of those files.. Also all browsers hangs when accessing pages, not all pages, but most of them when they are loading. 

I have a intel quad core w/ 4gb ram, nvidia 9600m gt running win 7 final x64 ultimate.

I've been using win 7 since rc in several machines and only in this one I have this problem. I don't recall installing any driver or software that may cause this. All drivers are up to date and generally the machine runs really smooth, except when browsing the net.

-reply by Juan

[iGuest]

Windows 7 KillsWindows 7 Freezes (again)

I've spent more time slamming Microsoft that Popeye has slamming Spinach over the years.

I did NOT jump to Vista at all.

I preached loudly to never buy ANY Microsoft product until a minimum of SP1 was out.

Through my schooling I have access to much Microsoft software - and when I was offered Windows 7 Professional RTM I took a copy on the spot, but I spent (on and off) about two weeks scouring the web for reviews, tips, you name it, before installing it on my old machine in the x86 version.

I fell in love with this OS in about a week, then I started having old hardware issues come up again (thought they were dead - but I had been pushing the system quite a bit). I could not afford to play around with all of it myself as I had certification exams and such coming up quickly, so I broke another rule: I bought a built system from a vendor.

A Dell Inspiron AMDX2 @ 2.8, with 6GB ram. It ran flawlessly out of the box, except for one nagging issue with  the new Windows Virtual PC that I felt was a Dell issue. I've spent the last several weeks trying to correct that. As of last night, the system will not boot under any circumstances - I tried every possible way to do it, and couldn't get past the "Windows is Starting" screen without an dead-stop-freeze.

The rep from Microsoft could get no farther either and he called Dell on a 3-way and told them flatly (as I had figured) it was hardware and they had to deal with it - he's going to call me back tomorrow to see what happened.

The Dell guy made me re-do every single step I told him had already done, and I pointed out 2 he hadn't thought of - all to no avail of course. Well duh!

After leaving me on hold for 10 minutes, he comes back and says that we need to take all of the ram OUT except for one stick, because...There is TOO MUCH MEMORY and it is making the system freeze up before we can load Windows/Repair/Recovery/Safe Mode/Reinstall - etc.

I stalled them off until tomorrow while I try and dig up some other ideas myself first - I'm afraid that more of their clunky poking will truly fudge the system, and I'll lose a BUNCH of not backed up data (especially DOC's and my mailbox).

I am now totally convinced that the whole problem lies with Dell and hardware, BUT, even after 6 weeks of screwing around with Dell etc (and talking to a few know-nothings at Microsoft before talking to a few with brains) - I still would not drop Windows 7 for love nor money, and the tenacity alone of a couple Microsoft guys to get this resolved has gained the company some points back with me.

-reply by loren sanders

[iGuest]

Same Issue with Win7 FreezeWindows 7 Freezes (again)

I have had Win7 RC installed for about 5 months now. I am able to replicate the freeze by opening certain flash sites in IE8.  There are no entries in the log beyond "system recovered from unexpected shut down". 

Specs:Windows 7 RC1 Ultimate x64Intel Quad Core 7 Extreem12 GB RamATI 4870X2 2GBRAID 1 WD Raptor 300 GB DrivesASUS Mobo

My system will freeze or shutdown with no warning.  It is random even though I can replicate by visiting the before mentioned sites.

After researching this on many sites, I have come to realize that IT IS A WINDOWS 7 issue.  There seems to be many factors that may cause this... X32, x64, Home, Ultimate, Nvidia, ATI, Flash, WMP...

They all seem to be mentioned.

I do fear what this is doing to my hardware!

If anybody has any ideas to how to fix the freezing please pass it on as there seem to be many of us in the same boat!

Thank youFrustrated Windoze User

-reply by geekiam

[Ridwan sameer]

Ive never had that problem.

[iGuest]

Advanced Browser IntegrationWindows 7 Freezes (again)

 The issue is caused by Internet Download Manager with Advanced Browser Integration enabled.

-reply by Gixx

[iGuest]

Help! Similar ProblemWindows 7 Freezes (again)

I just upgraded my 32bit vista ultimate to 32 bit windows 7 and I have had a similar problem. First of all, it says that my panda antivirus 2010 is off, but I cant turn it off, when I turn it on its like nothing happens at all. Also, it tells me that there is a Java update, but when I press the icon to install it the screen turns gray and translucent like you said. The screen also becomes this way when I try to uninstall or run certain other programs.

With vista, everything worked just fine, I had no problems, but windows 7 is giving me a headache. Does any of you guys have any solutions?

-reply by mits

[iGuest]

Facing same problem...Windows 7 Freezes (again)

I'm facing the very same problem! My Windows 7 freeze every time I opened two or more files within Office 2007. I have a i7 920 processor  with 12 Gb of DDR3 (triple channel), and this "space ship" can't deal with three word files???? ***!I have two disks of 1TB under RAID1 structure (fakeraid), but I don't believe that this array has any influence over the W7 problems. I also have Ubuntu 9.10 (in other partition) and the computer doesn't presented problems running with Linux... So...It seems to be a W7 issue...Thanks for the nice work Microsoft! o/

-reply by Dinler

[iGuest]

gee, I've experienced the same thing with w7 ultimate. I used an acer 6292 which the ram has been upgraded to 2.5 gig... my intel core 2 duo with 2.0 ghzand 800 mhz fsb, seems not to be the problem... I partitioned my hard drive to dual booting with my original windows vista business that came with my laptop, which every body knew that vista is quite slow for booting. But compare to my w7 ultimate which is also original and been activated at first installation, I left it behind for a while and use my vista business as well. This problem had appear since I used the beta version, rc, and now the ultimate. I like w7 for it's fast booting and exploring. But when it get hangs which quite often and bugging, I think, I'm gonna erase this os from my laps. I've tried several things to fix this I.E, always updating my windows, erase all anti virus program, avg and smadav, clean my ram, change the ram position, I used a ddr2 2 gigs, and 512 mb... Any body please help, because I like this w7 ultimate./

-reply by John