

Thank you for posting to the Microsoft Answers Forum.ġ) After you upgraded to Windows 7, did you go to the Dell website to get new drivers for Windows 7? They may be new drivers for chipset, video, Network adapter etc. My Windows 7 experience so far has been terrible :-(

I don't have much on this machine, 162GB free space, the only external hardware I connect sometimes is an Hp printer, which is not connected when the machine crumbles.

I have been advised to turn off Aero to increase performance, this has not helped. I ran the upgrade as advised in the installation guidelines, running the upgrade assistant prior to the upgrade. When you turn back on it has to check for inconsistencies on your disks. At which point you have to switch off the power, then You cant close the internet, you can't launch task manager, you cannot shut down, you cannot end task, essentially the machine becomes completly unresponsive. The problem manifests when the laptop is left idle, with only a web page open, and the screen saver comes on, you then return and try to exit the screen saver, the imageĪppears again but the machine is then frozen. I then upgraded to Windows 7 and unfortunately this appears to be killing the machine. I only got it in August and it initially had Vista on it.
