# HELP: Vista hangs up

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-vista-hangs-up/287767>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [May 6, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-vista-hangs-up/287767 "2009-05-06T01:30:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-vista-hangs-up/287767/1 "2009-05-06T01:30:46Z")

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my Vista laptop hangs up for no reason… most of the time after leaving it idle for a few minutes, sometimes while just surfing the net. This began only last night.

When it starts to happen, I can still move some windows, interact with the desktop, but I can’t close/open programs or do anything other than right-click on the desktop and move some gadgets on the sidebar. Then eventually, I can’t do anything at all, I have to hard reset it. Then it happens again soon after.

What’s wrong?

btw, a few days ago while booting up, a popup showed displaying “This driver has not been started” or something… Nothing more, no info, etc. I just pressed “OK” and everything went fine. I figured it was nothing. Hasn’t popped up ever since. I checked my drivers through Device Manager, and everything seems fine.