Thu, Oct 18 2007 6:30 PM Erwyn van der Meer

Windows Vista Finally Stable on my PC

One of my post popular blog posts deals with problems I was having with the stability of Windows Vista. I had major problems hibernation and sleep modes on my Dell PC. My PC never reliably went to sleep or hibernation and crashed either during going to sleep or when waking up. A lot of other people encountered similar problems. This blog post has 66 comments so far.

No driver update or Windows update solved my problem until October 9, 2007.

Around that time Microsoft released a set of reliability updates that are going to be part of SP1. There are supposedly also going to show up in Windows Update, but I manually downloaded and installed them ahead of time. Note that I am not running the beta of SP1.

If you encounter similar problems with Windows Vista, I highly recommend that you install these updates as well (if you haven't got them through auto update yet):

KB941649 

This update resolves some compatibility and reliability issues in Windows Vista. By applying this update, you can achieve better reliability and hardware compatibility in various scenarios.

KB941600

This update resolves some reliability issues in the USB core components on the Windows Vista operating system.

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# Windows Vista Sleep Problems - Erwyn van der Meer

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# re: Windows Vista Finally Stable on my PC

Sunday, November 04, 2007 1:42 PM by gizmophile

I got my new HP Pavilion Slimline on 10/22/07 and have since downloaded all of the necessary updates, including driver updates from HP's website and NVIDIA. Automatic updates is also running for Microsoft and HP.

While the updates solved other problems the computer contiuned to wake up about 30 seconds after being put to sleep. The solution offered by Dr. Phil and seconded by Tracie on the blog about sleep problems worked beautifully for me. One unchecked box later, the computer is peacefully sleeping through the night.  Sigh. (I sure miss XP).

Anyway, thanks for the blog. Saved me a LOT of aggravation.

Here is the solution I used:

# re: Windows Vista Sleep Problems

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:05 AM by Dr. Phil

I have a HP with Vista preinstalled and it would start up on it's own while in the sleep mode. This solved my problem:

Go to Control Panel

   Device Manager

      Network Adaptors

           click on the first listed (NVIDIA....)

Go to the Power Management tab and uncheck - "Allow device to wake computer"

There is even a paragraph on that tab warning that allowing the device to

wake your computer may cause it to "wakeup" when you don't want it to!

# re: Windows Vista Finally Stable on my PC

Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:25 PM by Edmond Jackson

Same issues have arisen with my new Dell Inspiron PC.

# Hibernation Windows Update » Windows Vista Finally Stable on my PC

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