Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

[Simon Preston]

And experiencing random lock ups, freezing, unresponsiveness etc etc?

I have it on both my PC and my laptop and I get the same issue with both. Programmes such as Opera or Firefox become unresponsive and you have to wait before they come back. My PC doesn't seem quite so bad (although that could be due to me using my laptop more, so I don't notice it as much) but every now and then the mouse will stop moving, the screen freezes and any audio thats playing will go crazy for a few seconds until it all goes back to normal.
At first I thought this may be a DMA issue and I had some badly installed drivers but after doing a search online it seems this is affecting a lot of users around the world on the 64 bit version.

I should also say that my laptop doesn't suffer from the momentary freeze that the PC does but pretty much any web browser I try has the unresponsive problem.

[Shpira]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

yeah thats pretty weird. I use Win 7 64 bit on my laptop without any issues. I haven't been using it for that long now...but I haven't had any problems really.

[Kamal]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

win 7 64 bit on laptop, no issues here. time for a re-install? sometimes if you end up installing anti-virus AND spyware or other anti-xxx-ware, you will notice oddities crop up.

[Simon Preston]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

I reinstalled it to my laptop the other day after the old hard drive died. Same issues with the new drive. Only AV I have on here is Microsoft Security Essentials. Going to reinstall on the PC sometime in the new year.
Now on one machine I could understand that maybe there's an issue with that machine. But two machines having similar issues?
After doing a bit of digging it seems I'm not the only person having problems:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7repair/thread/85cad5d1-dace-415d-9b06-5c609209e232

[demonAfro]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

I'm going to blame video drivers for all my freezing experience. I've always been an nvidia fanboy, but ended up getting a laptop with ATI graphics. Bad decision. I'm pretty sure that shocking quality video drivers can be blamed for stuff like random stuttering, UAC prompts taking 5 seconds to appear while locking the system, and other things of that nature.

And, of course, the other one is the flash browser plugin (and not so often java). The first webpage that I visit with flash each day slows things to a crawl each day for a second while the plugin loads.

[Simon Preston]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

Both my PC and laptop have NVidia GPU's. 8800GTS 320MB in the PC and 8600GS 512MB in the laptop. So I don't think it's a gfx issue.

[ganjamo]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

Sup simon, i used to have an issue like that and by doing some research it ended up being an application that was causing the lockups.
I used a program called DPC latency checker, which analyzes the capability of the computer of handling data streams and enables you to troubleshoot by shutting down programs and/or disabling hardware via device manager.

hope you sort it out

[TomTom]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

Have Win 7 64 bit running on 2 PC's at home...no problems.

[mnbvcxz]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

I'm running Windows 7 64 and also, no problems. In fact, it's a surprisingly good operating system in my opinion.

Simon, is your Windows an OEM image installed from a DVD (or partition)?

[Simon Preston]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

On my PC I have a full retail copy of Windows 7 (has both x86 and x64 versions) and my laptop has an upgrade install disc (as good as a normal retail install).I hate those install partition things and just delete them on anything I've got.
I agree Windows 7 is a very smart OS, just this odd niggle that bothers me. Will try a full reinstall in the New Year on the PC when all the fun has died down.

[mnbvcxz]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

Hmmm, no idea. All I can think of is a hardware incompatibility issue. But where do you start is a problem!

I have that install partition thing. Very annoying. I'm considering deleting it but I have two problems. a) Don't have Windows 7 on disc and b) There is some laptop software/drivers that I probably need to run certain features. I can probably download them but seems like a ball ache.

[srbbnd]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

I have windows 7 64 bit and also have some serious latency issues. Opera rarely works and Internet Explorer 64 bit is still slow as dirt compared to google chrome. Think it is driver issues, but I have tried updates and rollbacks with only small success.

[Simon Preston]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

I've solved my Opera issue by switching to Chrome, which works just great. A shame but there you have it.

[Simon Preston]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

Think I'm going to attempt the reinstall soon. Normally I'd wipe the entire drive and start again but I have so many programs and settings on there (not to mention a thoroughly customised user login for XBMC) that I'm loath to do this... bizarrely I have never done an upgrade over an existing installation. Am I correct in assuming that if I reinstall Windows 7 using the Upgrade option rather than a clean custom install that everything will still be there when I power up and I just need to install the drivers and updates?


Edit: Nevermind. I've decided to go for a complete disk wipe and install. Getting all my programme installers ready to make it as painless as possible, backing up my user folder, bookmarks, the Thunderbird mailbox and extracting all the xml tweaks I made to XBMC to pop them in later. Can't think of anything else I need.

[Simon Preston]

Re: Who else uses Windows 7 64 bit?

Reinstall completed, everything I want back on the drive (plus my customised XBMC) and all seems to be working fine. Went with Chrome over Opera.