Yes, I know: Vista is pants. But the 64bit version was pre-installed on my super-dupa state-of-the-art desktop and despite warnings from the purveyors of doom and gloom, it worked very well until this morning. That's 6 months of speedy convenience and the occasional pleasant surprise as Vista casually informed me that it was doing this or that on my behalf.
Then this morning my ESET Antivirus software caught a 'virus' while I was online (I ought to point out that I was on two websites belonging to a reputable Aviation Training Establishment and not megaboobies.com!). I took the option to delete the infected files and thought no more of it.
...until the pc froze, or more precisely the cursor turned into the little blue swirling circle which denotes that windows is 'thinking'. This state of affairs continues until the pc is re-booted. You then have a window of about a minute before the computer freezes again, usually while you're frantically checking settings or running the 'restore' function.
Incidentally, I have restored to a previous point three times and run the virus check software in the windows safe mode. Nothing has worked. I can't even use the Vista rescue CD-ROM because that crashes after, you guessed it, a minute.
Can anyone please make any useful suggestions please...aside from advising that I buy a Mac or switch to XP!!!
Thanks....