On 12/14/2012 3:04 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
As soon as you experience some sort of freeze, hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and
click the Task Manager button.
The Task Manager window will open. Click on the "Processes" tab and
then click the CPU heading (twice). That will sort the list in
descending order by CPU usage. See if you have a process that is
eating up a large percentage of your CPU time. You can Google the
process name if you don't recognize it.
Prime suspect is normally spyware/adware, so downloading the free
MalwareBytes for a check of that is recommended.
There are lots of other possibilities, but that's what I'd try first.
Unless the UI is so completely locked up that the old three finger
salute doesn't get recognized. I'm assuming he's already tried that.
When the latest HD failure in my desktop happened the system would lock
up trying to load software from almost failed sectors on the failing
drive. Sometimes the GUI would lock and only a hard reboot would get it
going again.
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Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthly search.
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