Dialogue boxes feezing

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I have Vista installed on a new laptop - it has never had XP.

The issue I have is that dialogue boxes that appear as the normal part of a
program that will sometimes not respond to the answer I give, most times will
freeze and will not accept the answer at all (example: email sender wants a
receipt) and essentially this freezes the program - the only way to remove
the box is to go to the Task Manager and close down the program. Usually I
do this five times and then have to reboot - sometimes I can use the cursor
to move the box and this seems to fix it - but 99% not. Even rebooting will
not fix it. Soemtimes I can go for days with no problems and then it hits
again. This mornong for instance all boxes froze and I reboooted three times
- and for the last hour it has been ok. I used diagnostics soemtimes but
this never shos anything.

What the heck is happening - it is extremely time wasting, and totaly
infuriating. It did not happen immediately on using, just developed. I use
Norton.
--
Ian

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>I have Vista installed on a new laptop - it has never had XP.

The issue I have is that dialogue boxes that appear as the normal part of
a
program that will sometimes not respond to the answer I give, most times
will
freeze and will not accept the answer at all (example: email sender wants
a
receipt) and essentially this freezes the program - the only way to remove
the box is to go to the Task Manager and close down the program. Usually
I
do this five times and then have to reboot - sometimes I can use the
cursor
to move the box and this seems to fix it - but 99% not. Even rebooting
will
not fix it. Soemtimes I can go for days with no problems and then it hits
again. This mornong for instance all boxes froze and I reboooted three
times
- and for the last hour it has been ok. I used diagnostics soemtimes but
this never shos anything.

What the heck is happening - it is extremely time wasting, and totaly
infuriating. It did not happen immediately on using, just developed. I
use
Norton.
--
Ian

You'll have better luck asking a question such as yours in a Windows group,
rather then in this .NET programming group:

To find the group you need:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...D-2224A4FEB3EA

Then open your language in the TreeView on the left, scroll down to
"Windows", open and scroll down to "Vista"
and look for an appropriate group there.

Hope you find the answers you need.

When you post again, be sure to give the specifications of the laptop
(processor, memory, hard drive speed, etc.). I've run into several
situations where students were sold laptops with Vista that never should
have had Vista installed, and one situation where the laptop sold was
clearly not operating correctly.
Bare minimum hardware configurations and Vista are not a happy combination.