I am having a very serious and irritating issue with my Dell XPS M1730 laptop running on Windows Vista Home Premium. If I leave my laptop running idle for some time, all the running programs stop responding. The computer itself doesn’t hang as i can move my cursor and see the time change. But otherwise i cannot open any folder or open task manager, etc. I cant even restart from start menu. All the downloads are stuck midway and the browser and other programs become inaccessible.
The surprising thing is that I have no issues whatsoever as long as I use my computer. I have even used it for 8 hrs or more straight. Its only when i leave it idle for a little while, like just go out for a walk, i return to find all the programs stuck.
I have scanned my hard drives for viruses using NOD32, AdAware & Malwarebytes, found no infections. Scanned my disk for errors, found no problems. I scanned and fixed my registry errors but to no avail.
Any help regarding this issue would be highly appreciated.Thanks.