I boot up my computer and everything is up and ready to go as usual. I then decide to open up my browser....nothing happens. The hard drive fires up then slows down, but nothing shows up on my screen. I then try again...nothing.
I will then right click on a file and try and rename....NOTHING!
I can move my mouse and the menu pops up when I click on the start menu. I can also access the right-click menu, but none of the commands respond.
This happens occassionaly on startup. CTRL-ALT-DELETE doesn't function. For crap sakes, I can't even shutdown, log-off or restart the computer!!
This is starting to wear me very thin. I have had more problems with Vista then any other Operating system. Gees, even Windows ME didn't cause me half the trouble. I'm fully patched, but I get more blue screens, more hung programs and bad shutdowns then my old Win 98 box!
My only shot at getting my computer to behave is to do a hard start (hold on button for about 5 seconds). Once I reboot, everything goes back to normal. I never know when this thing will happen again.
I grabbed this from the event log at the time the problem began:
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Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 10/20/2008 8:59:31 PM
Event ID: 7022
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Dell5150
Description:
The KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator service hung on starting.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908D1-A6D7-4695-8E1E-26931D2012F4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7022</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-10-21T00:59:31.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>193793</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Dell5150</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="param1">KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 10/20/2008 8:59:31 PM
Event ID: 7022
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Dell5150
Description:
The KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator service hung on starting.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908D1-A6D7-4695-8E1E-26931D2012F4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7022</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-10-21T00:59:31.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>193793</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Dell5150</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="param1">KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
I have a Dell 5150 Dimension, Intel Pentium D Dual Core, 2.8GHz processor.
2 GB DDR2 RAM
512MB Video RAM
Vista Home Premium SP1, fully patched.
Should I go back to XP?
