not responding

My system has slowed to a crawl (and rebooting makes no difference). Every mouse click takes anything between 10 and 60 seconds to get a response and most programmes state 'not responding'. When I boot into Safe Mode it's fine, so I'm guessing it's not a hardware problem. I tried rolling...

I have a new dell studio running windows 7 and for some reason almost all of my programs, when I try to open them say "not responding". This also includes the games that came with windows such as minesweeper and solitare, etc. I can still use internet explorer but it also says not responding and...

I am really hating Win7 right about now... Here's a regular daily duty for me. I put a camera CF card into a USB reader and put it into the USB slot. I then create folders on a hard drive for each day of photos that was on the CF card, and I drag all the Monday stuff from the CF into a Monday...

Windows 7 has been on my computer for about3 moonths now with absolutely no problems. Today, however, when I logged on my icons would not appear, and the pointer was in the was blue loading ring for about 15 minites. I logged off using the ctrl+alt+del and logged back on. this time the icons...

JUST received my NEW laptop (Dell-studio) with Windows 7, and CANNOT open Windows Media Center, also getting explorer.exe error when trying to shut down computer. sounds, CDs aren't working (obviously, as I can't get wmp to respond to anything. I have to constantly hit cntrl+alt+delete to...

every time i press folders or press the start menu or anything related to explorer.exe,, the explorer goes: explorer is not responding, then it restarts! what is wrong with it, i had tried sfc/scannow, it says no problem with the system. can anyone help me!??? is there a way to extend...

backward and forward buttons at internet explorer 8 doesn't work or responding. i uninstall explorer and install it again ,but the same result,what can i do to slove this problem? Link Removed due to 404 Error

I've got a slight problem. When I go onto start and type in 'System Information'. It loads up with the System Summary and other stuff. I click on Software Environment and click on Windows Error Reporting. It loads and then suddenly on the top the bar, it says Not Responding. It then closes, send...

Recently I have been having a random problem that started about a week ago. I run Warcraft III windowed mode and I have not had a problem with it. It isn't just warcraft anymore so I posted this here. Anyways, when I click inside the window while things like Warcraft III or Mozilla Firefox are...

I have dual boot (win 7/win xp). My dvd-rom works perfecty in win xp but in Win 7 i can't read any dvd-s, it sends pc to "not responding". I have the latest firmware. What do i do?:frown:

I did an upgrade to Windows 7 last night. Everything went fine. BUT there was supposed to have been a step 3 to this process accoriding to the upgrade instructions, and it didn't do it. So I tried to start it myself by double clicking on the upgrade wizard, it said what it was going to do, which...

It seems to be that Windows Explorer is screwed. :eek::eek::eek: I had my laptop and I realised GTA: Vice City was screwing up a bit. It was a modded version (Killer Vip 1.3?) Anyway my computer was Not responding on the most simplest of tasks. Such as opening a folder. I then tried to make...

I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 Premium and now when I try and open Word 2007 it just hangs there. An if I right click anything after that the system locks up and eventually comes back with Windows Explorer is not responding and asks to restart. Any ideas?

I have" AERO" disabled in order for older apps not to switch windows color, turns out windows 7 is not running same colors as vista did. If any program freezes, i cant close it. I click CLose button and nothing happened. Even moving mouse over X X is not hovered (dont see the effect) So i click...

Around four days ago i upgraded windows vista home premium to windows 7 home premium. In windows vista, whenever i would be online for more than a while, internet explorer would frequently stop working all of a sudden and didn't respond to any commands, forcing me to shut the computer down...

I've been using Windows 7 build 7100 happily for the past 6 months. But recently it develops a weird problem: The application window (like IE, firefox, outlook, explorer) flash quickly. I can see "Not responding" displayed in the title in between the each flash. I have Quad proc + 6GB memory...

Hi, I have installed Windows 7 RTM and everything is working just great for more then a month. But now I am experiencing some problems when I am installing larger programs or games. When installation starts, the system starts to freeze and I cant even normally switch windows or browse on...

I have the Windows 7 RC 64-bit installed on my comp, and I have been using WMP12 for a few months now with no issues up until recently. It has been freezing constantly on me within minutes of starting a song from my playlist. After 2 minutes into a song, WMP12 will dim and I get a message saying...

This seems to happen a few times in the day, does anyone else have this problem? I never had this problem with XP. I hope microsoft fixes this soon...

Hey, I'm new to the forums and I guess this will be my initial post. I've running Windows 7 for a while now and I've been having a problem running Firefox. I don't know what is it but everytime I try to restart Firefox after installing a new gadget, it briefly shows up for a split-second and...