-=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Computer Hanging
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:52:04 -0400
Hiccups occur for all sorts of reasons. But they also throw the system into
an unstable state. The moment something out of the ordinary happens, your
best bet is to save whatever you're working on and reboot the system to
regain a stable state. Although you enabled the Debugging state, that
didn't have anything to do with the recovery of the system. The reboot
itself is what dumped the junk that was 'stuck' in RAM and allowed the
system to come back up 'refreshed'.
Some of you have probably seem me discussing times when a bootup didn't
quite 'feel' right. Maybe the icons are off just a little (maybe a lot),
perhaps it's just acting much slower than usual, etc.. These are times when
a reboot should be the first thing you think of doing. :)
Peace,
Gman
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith/agoodread.com" <jtb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:25 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: My Computer Hanging
> Don,
>
> There is no junk on my hard drives. My 250 GB has 74%
> free and my 750GB has 90% free. I did take your advice
> and defrag the 250 as I've made quite a few changes
> lately. Tower sits on the floor with plenty of air
> circulation and the vents are clean. Cool air coming out
> and it's been on since 7AM.
>
> What I think happened had to do with my external drive.
> When I plugged it in, my computer hiccuped and then the
> problem of not finding "My Computer" happened.
>
> By putting it into Safe, Debugging Mode, it seems to have
> cleared up the problem. I just lucked into that solution
> because I've never used it before. I think it's the first
> time I looked so closely at the Safe Screen Dialog. I
> thought well "it's behaving buggy" so I'll use that.
>
> It worked or else it unhiccupped and fixed itself :-)
> Judith
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