Repeated Stalls

probably the same one. I will download and restart, cause it can't hurt. Update shortly...

SIt could be the index system initialising I have not yetr heard of such an extreme case as yours. but it is possible.If the problem has gone after your reinstall, then no worries. The search index is a feature which puts the entire contents of your computer into a Dbase. This enables you to type anything into you Start box, and it wiil find it immediately.It eventually settles down, but can cause small hiccups , when operating, long term. I have no use for it and have turmed off the service.

Well, it took this window 6 minutes to unfreeze... so I'm going to go with that did'n't work.

I am relatively noob at this stuff, but my friend seems to think it's windows, while I am leaning towards something hard drive.

Any more settings or new windows quirks anyone can think of?

A recent post W 7 Freezing reminded me of people having this problem when upgrading from Vista or Win 7 RC

I completely forgot that it happened on my system too, since it was quite awhile ago.

I finally formatted the C: drive and did a Full clean install.
What install options are available to you when run the Win 7 Upgrade?

Hi,

The option for those running Vista, is to do a simple upgrade, which is what I did. I ran the upgrade advisor and there were no issues with existing software, but, I did have to get the latest Epson scanner driver. All else was good. Since writing about this issue, I may have found that the IE8 which gave me problems in Vista, may be causing it. I'm using Firefox to see if the problem goes away.
Thanks for responding!

Well, I had a hard drive fail, so I this is actually a full reformat and fresh install of a full version (no upgrades) of windows 7. So upgrade issues wouldn't likely apply.