Vista freezes from time to time... UAC problem?

I recently installed Windows Vista Home Premium and have noticed a troublesome delay when doing some things in Vista. For example, I could be switching from one application to the next and Vista would hang for about 10 seconds then resume. I could even be switching from one web page to another in IE7 and the same thing would happen. I want to blame this on UAC... but am not sure what could be the problem. Here's my system stats:

Motherboard: DFI Infinity SLI (NF4)
Memory: 2GB
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 - 3200
Hard Drive: 250 GB Western Digital

2007-02-04T20:42:02Z

I forgot to mention that my graphics card is the Geforce 7600 GT and Microsoft Vista rates my machine a 4.1 with the CPU score being the lowest (@ 4.1), so its not my computer's hardware.

agent-X2007-02-04T15:11:18Z

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There could be two things:
1. the driver you are using for your motherboard (nvidia didn't release yet a stable version for nforce 4 and above, and the beta version has minor problems which hopefuly will be fixed soon).. this is also available for video drivers
2. the processor's speed... On a single core CPU, Vista won't run that great...

Ugly Duckling2007-02-04T15:04:49Z

You seem to have a good system, at first I thought maybe its your memory, but when i saw you had 2GBs I thought, "Wow, maybe Vistas requirements are much higher." The only thing i can guess is that maybe some of your RAM might not be working well or maybe Vista is having a harder time transferring Data from your hard drive. I heard its going to need some pretty good computers to run but i wouldn't think thats a problem. No one has much experience with Vista yet but i would recommend getting help from Microsoft.

Brianna2016-03-29T09:00:14Z

The RAM manufacturer doesn't matter as much as exactly matching the voltage, latency, capacity and speed. It is just easier to buy from the same builder. I haven't upgraded to Vista yet but when I do I will run a minimum of 2 Gb and probably 4 Gb.

ahmbuk2007-02-06T16:23:55Z

Just bought Windows Vista Home Premium I'm having exactly the same problem as above. My config. Intel D 3.2GHz, 1.5GB & 250GB SATA HDD. My XP Media ctr. is way more stable than this release of Vista.

Donovan G2007-02-04T15:03:15Z

Don't understand your system stats. You should talk to a professional or something. It posible your computer isn't upgraded enough to run the actual program. go to http://www.staples.com/vista and run this program that will see if your computer is able to actually run it. You might have to uninstall it.

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