Developing on a Windows Vista Machine
10/10/2007 3:54:38 PM
I am starting to absolutely hate Vista. My machine is bare-bones. Visual Studio 2005 / 2008, SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, Winamp, Office 2007 Student, Symantec Antivirus, and FileZilla. Lately my machine has been freezing up. Not just a quick, couple of seconds freeze either. I am talking about a full-blown 2-7 minutes of nothingness. No CTRL + ALT + DELETE, right-click - Task Manager, nothing. My development ritual for the past couple of weeks has consisted of the following:
1. Get up at 6:00am excited to code for the day
2. Turn on computer
3. Notice wireless network can't be found
4. Run downstairs to power-cycle router / modem
5. Run back upstairs to make sure the change took
6. Realize it didn't, yell "F**K Wave Broadband" as I run back downstairs
7. Power-cycle router / modem again
8. Repeat 5-6 * 2, 3, sometimes 6 times
9. Start up Visual Studio 2005.
10. Visual Studio 2005 freezes (Not Responding)
11. Yell "F**K" really loud
12. Wait 2-7 (sometimes 10!) minutes before I can open IE / Mozilla
13. Google search for a combination of "Vista", "freeze", "IE7", etc...
14. IE / Mozilla now freezes
15. 11 * a lot
16. Tell myself if Vista were a human I would stab him / her in the neck with a pen
Here's how I feel developing on Vista (the rapid keystrokes resemble me CTRL+ALT+DEL'ing in a frantic attempt to end a task). The progression of this image is pretty true-to-form as well.
The funny thing is I don't have any virus, spyware, p2p, etc on my machine... I make it a point to do routine scans. I run Spybot Search & Destroy as well as Symantec religiously.
Please respond with solutions if you have had this problem in the past / currently. I am starting to hear more and more about others having these kinds of issues.
UPDATE
I took Andrew & David's advice and ended up updating my video card drivers. I haven't had one freeze yet today and have been steady-coding since 7:30am! Thanks.
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