windows vista freezes and taskbar does not unfreeze it

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:58:51 -0500, Nonny <nonnymoose@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>"Rosemary" <Rose1095@shaw.ca> wrote:
>

>>Please help me.
>>
>>I have a problem where a program in Windows Vista freezes up and the task
>>bar doesn't unfreeze it.

>
>It would be nice for those who want to help you for you to tell them
>what the program is.
>

>>In addition, I am unable to shutdown or restart properly.

>
>Which means?
>

>> I have Vista home premiums and 3 gb of RAM. My computer is only
>>2 years old.
>>
>>
>>Thanks
>>Roses

It happened here also. After applying sp1 the vista desktop simply
froze within 30 secs. No programs started by me and the problem is
reproduceable on my oem factory installed VHP (ASUS Pro31P)

Only way to shutdown was to Power off via switch. I did not re-install
the OS and received virtually no help from the computer seller or MS.

What I did do was this:

1. Remove hard disk and replace with new , but larger unit.

2. Install Linux.

regards

further discussion might be warranted.