Found the problem on mine. It was vista. I simply did a freash install of
vista and unchecked the box about installing updates. It was one of the
update things that was causing it.

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> Then return it for warranty repair or replacement. That's almost surely not
> a Vista problem if the unit is brand new.
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> "MickyB" <MickyB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E5629CBB-9DA8-4C20-B80C-036D38655803@microsoft.com...
> > Same. I got a brand new computer and it freezes about 90% of the time even
> > when I have nothing open at all.
> >
> > "tater930" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> "justenuff" wrote:
> >>
> >> > So, my computer w/ Vista (came loaded) has froze up 13 times in the
> >> > past
> >> > three days that I have had it. I'm not using it for games, just
> >> > several,
> >> > regular applications. When it freezes, I can't ctrl+alt+del to get the
> >> > taskbar. The mouse also freezes, so I can't get to the taskbar to
> >> > activate
> >> > task manager either. I think I ran across something that concerns a
> >> > Windows
> >> > auto repair problems when programs have issues. Can I override this?
> >> > Does
> >> > anyone know about this or have had a similar program?
>