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Two or three times a day, while running no more than (say) Word and Outlook (Office 2007), my system goes extremely slow and erratic and I get the spinning circle that Vista has as its hourglass and all applications showing up with "(Not Responding)" in their title bars. While it is in this state, I naturally want to see what process is eating up the CPU (though the CPU gadget shows nothing amazing). However, when I press Ctrl+Alt+Del, all I get after a delay is a black screen and a dialogue box saying:
Login process has failed to create the security options dialog.
Failure - security options.
[OK]
Clicking OK leaves me with a black screen for a long time and I get returned to the frozen applications. I then have to reboot by holding down the reset for a few seconds (because gets its knickers in a twist resetting the soft way).
I have had this problem with Windows Vista Business and then installed Windows Vista Ultimate and have continued to have exactly the same problem.
My system is an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB, 2.66GHz, DELL XPS bought in January with XP. The soundcard (Soundblaster X-Fi) is on a beta driver, because the driver will only be available at the end of March and my two previous questions at http:Q_22407028.html and http:Q_22411870.html should be read in this context.
Should I be looking at SpinRite (suggested in the second previous question), which I didn't persevere with after my corruption was sorted out by chkdsk... or is my problem more likely to be something else?
Login process has failed to create the security options dialog.
Failure - security options.
[OK]
Clicking OK leaves me with a black screen for a long time and I get returned to the frozen applications. I then have to reboot by holding down the reset for a few seconds (because gets its knickers in a twist resetting the soft way).
I have had this problem with Windows Vista Business and then installed Windows Vista Ultimate and have continued to have exactly the same problem.
My system is an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB, 2.66GHz, DELL XPS bought in January with XP. The soundcard (Soundblaster X-Fi) is on a beta driver, because the driver will only be available at the end of March and my two previous questions at http:Q_22407028.html and http:Q_22411870.html should be read in this context.
Should I be looking at SpinRite (suggested in the second previous question), which I didn't persevere with after my corruption was sorted out by chkdsk... or is my problem more likely to be something else?
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