Problem with Win7

[Lewis57]

Hello there. Recently I've been suffering a series of pausing. It's never a full on freeze, i can still move my mouse, but clicking becomes obsolete.

To break the freezing, i have to hit ctrl-alt-delete and simply hitting escape will cause my system to run as normal. I have tried a second mouse to check it wasn't purely coincidental, it also happened with the second mouse.

I have done a full format and reinstall of windows since it started and still it happens.

I can't be too certain but i think these pauses may be linked in with installing VB6.0. As my college still uses VB6.0, i installed it via compatibility mode, and although i can't be too certain, i think it may be tied in with VB6.0 editing system files or whatever it does.

When these pauses occur, i can do nothing other than operate with the keyboard or just move the mouse, until i hit CTRL-ALT-DEL i can't click anything.

I'm just wondering whether anyone else has win7 and VB6.0 installed and has encountered these problems? Or not.

I'm soon to finish my unit and will do a full format again so i guess I'll find out then if no one else has any input.

Thanks.

Although i believe its a software problem, here are my hardware details:

P5n-D
Q6600 - stock clock at the moment.
Corsair H50 heatsink
nVidia 9800GTX+

Also i realize that VB6.0 isn't listed as a compatible win7 program, but i have no XP machines left and VS2008 saves under different formats.

 

[Lewis57]

I've done a full format and the problem is still occuring. I can only presume it's a hardware problem, which isn't good. Anyone else experienced this?

 

[number13]

if you had to install the program in compatability mode, you already have the problem in hand, Win7 don't like VB6

 

[Lewis57]

if you had to install the program in compatability mode, you already have the problem in hand, Win7 don't like VB6

Yeah thats why i presumed it was VB6 causing the problems. But i have done a complete reinstall of windows since without installing VB6.0 and the problems remain, as frequent as ever.

After every startup, i can move the mouse, operate windows via the keyboard, but i cannot click anything. That includes the startbar, any window that may be open (firefox/winamp/msn anything, i can't click inside them but i can alt tab to them and tab around in the program no problem) Hitting CTRL ALT DEL will fix the problem for the time being.

As soon as i launch a full screen thing, such as a video on youtube, or a game, when i come out of fullscreen the mouse click is locked up again.

It sometimes happens even if i'm just randomly browsing the net.

Its not crucial, but is very, very annoying.

 

[number13]

how big is you monitor/ resolution settings, if you are above 1440x900 try reducing the resolution, post back