Posted: 1/27/2009 3:35:09 PM EDT
| Many times when I try to close a program or a window nothing happens and a box pops up saying 'this program is not responding'. When I click on 'end program now' still nothing happens except that and everything locks up and my hard drive light starts blinking like mad and I can hear it running. Sometimes if I wait for a while the program will end really slow instead of just disappear. Most times I have have to reboot the PC. I have tried everything I can think of, scan disc, defragmenting, CC cleaner and spy ware programs but it still happens. Any thoughts? Is it fatal? Time to get rid of the PC? |
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1. Virus is eating your memory
2. A bad process is slowing your computer (damaged or corrupt file loading in memory) 3. Too many background apps for your RAM and Swap file to manage 4. Damaged operating sytem files. Take your pick. Eliminate each possible problem, or reformat and start from scratch. TRG |
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1. Virus is eating your memory 2. A bad process is slowing your computer (damaged or corrupt file loading in memory) 3. Too many background apps for your RAM and Swap file to manage 4. Damaged operating sytem files. Take your pick. Eliminate each possible problem, or reformat and start from scratch. TRG I have noticed that this happens mostly if I have a lot of windows open. |
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You have too much shit running at once.
Take a look at the lower right corner of your screen. The less stuff in there the better. You can hit ctrl+alt+del and pull up the task manager to see what item is a hogging all the juice. You can close crap like itunes, msn-whatever, adobe-whatever, real-player, there are a bunch of things you don't need running. Leave explorer alone. It does not correlate to MS internet explorer. MS internet explorer is iexlporer IIRC. You can download spybot to prevent stuff from running at start-up. This will make start-up faster and have the computer run faster in general. If you open 15 internet explorer browsers and hit ctrl+alt+del you can see it such more juice than if you only had one open. Close out stuff you don't need and make a short-cut on the desk-top to locations you go to often. |