Nelson Helm <helmkyny at clockwinders.net> wrote: > This morning I klikt on something I had downloaded a while ago to see what it > was. My cursor stopped responding, then disappeared. I rebooted, ran Disk > First Aid, etc. etc. S L O W But sometimes when the computer appears to > have frozen, it has not crashed. It's simply taking a while to show that it > still runs. How long should I wait? before I despair and hit the power button > to re-boot.
Inquiring minds want to know: what computer and OS do you have, what kind of file did you try to open, what program should have launched? If the cursor vanished, waiting was not going to make any difference. After you rebooted, what happened when you tried to open the file a second time? Allan Atherton | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
