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R.S.Lynn
1. I have taken to right-clicking on the Desktop icon, and selecting OPEN,
rather than double-clicking, in the superstition that perhaps I might have
triple-clicked or something. Consider those times when I try to open Excel,
and a blank document comes up, but the program is totally unresponsive.
Then I go to Task Manager and see two listings, both saying NOT RESPONDING.
Selecting either or both of these and hitting END TASK does absolutely
nothing that I can see. Further, selecting SHUTDOWN does not work. There
is nothing for it but to hold the hardware power button down until the
computer shuts down. This can't be doing much good for the OS, but I have
no choice, when it is hung like that.
2. As far as I can remember, it is pretty much the same when Windows
Explorer is shown twice in TaskManager as NOT RESPONDING.
After I screw up my courage, and resign myself to buying a lot of new (non
MS) software $$! that will function with Vista, and have dumped vital data
files, etc., onto DVDs, I will buy and install Vista. Whatever corruption I
now suffer from should not be there in a new OS.
But I would like some chance that I can learn why the XP Pro OS now hangs in
the situations described above. I have other hang problems, but I restrict
this post to cases mentioned in ¶ 1 and 2.
rather than double-clicking, in the superstition that perhaps I might have
triple-clicked or something. Consider those times when I try to open Excel,
and a blank document comes up, but the program is totally unresponsive.
Then I go to Task Manager and see two listings, both saying NOT RESPONDING.
Selecting either or both of these and hitting END TASK does absolutely
nothing that I can see. Further, selecting SHUTDOWN does not work. There
is nothing for it but to hold the hardware power button down until the
computer shuts down. This can't be doing much good for the OS, but I have
no choice, when it is hung like that.
2. As far as I can remember, it is pretty much the same when Windows
Explorer is shown twice in TaskManager as NOT RESPONDING.
After I screw up my courage, and resign myself to buying a lot of new (non
MS) software $$! that will function with Vista, and have dumped vital data
files, etc., onto DVDs, I will buy and install Vista. Whatever corruption I
now suffer from should not be there in a new OS.
But I would like some chance that I can learn why the XP Pro OS now hangs in
the situations described above. I have other hang problems, but I restrict
this post to cases mentioned in ¶ 1 and 2.