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facebook keeps freezing Chrome and Windows
Hı, everyone. I am a Windows 7 and Chrome user.
Lately (since past few months) my Chrome has been freezing, taking down whole operating system with it, leaving resetting the computer the only ...
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Computer Stalls 5 minutes after cold boot
My computer stalls about 5 minutes after a cold boot.
I let it warm up, restart it and then it'll work fine until next cold boot.
Issue happens in XP, Win Vista and Win 7 (even happened during an os ...
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Does Simply Opening Task Manager Jog the System?
I swear it's just in my head, but when my Windows computer hangs or freezes, I find that opening Task Manager (by either Ctrl-Alt-Del > Task Manager or Ctrl-Shift-Esc) sometimes seems to jog the ...
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Why do computers freeze? [closed]
When a computer freezes (windows or mac) where do you point fingers?
The OS (software);
The RAM (hardware);
Anything else? Do you point fingers at the graphics/video card? the HD?
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Can I create a rescue DVD with an image created with Macrium backup
I have installed Macrium software free edition.
I have created an image file 3GB in size. I want to store the rescue media and Image file on ONE DVD.
How can I do that?
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How to solve extreme DPC latency peaks (240.000µs)
Once every few minutes I get a sudden peak of DPS latency that causes the system to "freeze" for a fraction of a second (240.000µs = 240ms).
The freeze is not only audio, also video, input devices, ...
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Detecting/diagnosing drive “pauses”. Any good tools out there?
Tonight, while working away on my PC, it started temporarily freezing. First, I'd hear a louder-than-usual click from the hard drive bay. Then, nothing would seem out of the ordinary until I actually ...
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Windows 7 save dialog hang - any solutions?
Far too often, the save dialog on some of my windows applications - notepad, paint, ms word etc hangs, and does not recover.
Due to this, the only option available is a kill, in which case data is ...
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Why is my hard disk making Windows 7 freeze?
I have a 2TB HDD formatted with 2 partitions, 1TB each. One partition is for storage the other one is used for Windows 7 backup. The HDD is a Seagate Barracuda, originally it was an external USB hard ...
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What should I do if my system boots up,runs normally after then but nothing is displayed on screen?
Well there has been a problem with my PC since few days.
My system with a flat screen,2 RAMS,Intel Motherboard,No Video or Graphics Card,2 Hard disk- One of 80 GB and another of 500 GB,Windows 7 ...
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Can I close a firefox tab through the console?
There I was downloading a bunch of stuff from the Internet quite happily using Firefox built-in download manager when I decided to check code academy (a site that teaches you how to program in ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 freezes from time to time, don't know why
I've just installed Ubuntu a second OS on my Dell laptop. It has been installed 2 days ago and since then it's been frozen for about 4 times now and i have no idea why. I didn't use anything much to ...
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Eclipse INDIGO freeze everytime when I run python program
My Eclipse is downloaded some days ago from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and the type is Eclipse Classic 3.7.1.
I installed pydev in Eclipse and configuration python in Windows -> Performance -> ...
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All my sons's browsers freeze on Facebook when doing status update
When my son tries to update his status on Facebook the browsers (Safari and Chrome) freeze (spinning beachball of death). He has been doing a hard restart to stop it. As this is not a good practice on ...
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HP Compaq hangs before booting
We have an HP Compaq dc7900 in the office. 4 days ago it had several problems in the USB connection; that we couldn't connect anything via any USB port (tried a scanner and a walkman). We left the ...
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Windows 7 freezes on connecting second time to same wifi network
I am using Lenovo - y470, which comes with windows 7 home premium. I can connect to my wifi network and there is no issue in that. But the problem comes if the network get disconnected and i again try ...
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Win 7 Hangs on welcome screen - in safe mode as well
So, I went to my friends house today with my laptop (running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit) and it was working fine, but now when I've gone to log on at my house - it just hangs on the welcome screen ...
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Windows 7 desktop unresponsive after start-up after being left unused for six weeks
I haven’t used my Windows 7 64-bit PC in six weeks. It runs a minimum of background processes and almost nothing at start-up. It has performed great for the year I’ve had it.
Yesterday morning, ...
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Normal PSU voltages?
So i've been having some freezes here and there. After checking out my temps (normal), my memory (ran memtest x86 for 3 hours with no problems) and a cpu stress test (also, no problems), I decided to ...
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Why does my laptop freeze up a few minutes after the power cable is disconnected?
If the computer is running on wall-power and power cable is then disconnected, which sometimes happens accidentally, the computer will freeze up within a few minutes unless I notice and quickly ...
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Full computer freeze with audio stuttering after playing games for a period of time
I've been having a problem with my computer freezing completely when playing games like LA Noire or SW:TOR (yay early access!). Basically, what happens is I will play for around an hour or so ...
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Troubleshooting computer freeze, windows 7, ASRock M3A770DE with AMD Phenom II
I am having fairly regular freezes on my Windows 7 box. Generally it freezes running a game (I've frozen on SW:TOR, DotA2, etc.) However, it has locked up at the login screen before (once that I can ...
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What do I do when a program stops responding?
When a program stops responding, and turns gray and the box that says "this program is no longer responding" comes up, How do I know when to close the window, and when do I wait for it to respond?
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SSD causes my Windows 7 installation to freeze
I have an ADATA S510 60GB SATA3 (AHCI mode) SSD, and an Asus M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard.
Quite often my computer freezes for about 30 seconds, and afterward returns to its normal state. I'm more than ...
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Computer freezes at random times until key is pressed
When booting my computer (Debian Squeeze), the boot screen freezes almost immediately, but when I press a random key (including useless keys such as NumLock) the boot process continues. This happens ...
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Windows 7 hangs shortly after startup
My computer recently started freezing a couple minutes after startup sometimes, but sometimes wouldn't even make it pass the loading screen before freezing. It doesn't seem to matter what I do, play ...
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Possible HDD error. Explorer seem to pause/stop/lock and dir using cmd seem to pause/stop/lock cmd
Reference: When I use the words pause, lock or stop I refer to a stage where a process seems to be in a never-ending-loop with no timeout.
I have built a brand new pc, except for the hard drives.
The ...
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Hard Disk Not Being Recognized: “Reboot and Select proper Boot device”
I built my computer about 3 months ago. It has a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB HDD (model ST31000524AS) on an AsRock 970 Extreme Mobo. My HDD was split into 3 partitions, a partition for windows 7 ...
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System hangs when turned on after several hours of being off
Starting a while ago, my computer began hanging indefinitely a few minutes after showing the login screen. This only happens after the computer has been off for a few hours.
Normally, after ...
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How to fix Visual Studio 2008 freeze?
My Visual Studio 2008 freezes under some conditions. After a restart all is fine at first, but once it starts updating IntelliSense and counting down items it stops always on the same number (the ...
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How to prevent Service Control Manager hanging at start of Windows 7?
I had a third NAS added to my home system this summer. At that time, I started to develop and issue wherein the start of my Win 7SP1 becomes a two-step process. MOST stuff seems to load immediately ...
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What is causing random hard freezes on my system? Kaspersky?
The last few weeks I experienced a new strange behavior of my computer. Sometimes Windows 7 just freezes with no real reason at all. While listening to music for example the playback hangs and you can ...
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New HDD causes general lockups (including mouse freezing!)
I have a Dell Inspiron 6400. I changed the memory a couple of years ago with no problems, but recently bought a new HDD and now I get random lockups. Serious lockups. Like, where even the mouse ...
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Windows 7 installation hangs during “Completing installation” step
I'm installing a copy of Windows 7 on a computer running XP. Everything has been progressing fine, but at the "Completing installation" stage the computer seems to freeze - the 3 dots no longer move, ...
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Ubuntu crashing with NVidia GeForce 550 Ti
I have an Asus motherboard p8z68-V motherboard with an NVidia GeForce 550 Ti plugged in. The system boots just fine when I'm using the onboard graphics, but when I plug in the GeForce and use that, it ...
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How can I stop Firefox from freezing regularly?
(Firefox 7.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.10 using Gnome Classic)
I had hoped my Firefox freezing issue would have been solved with the sqlite VACUUM method offered in this answer. It has helped, in that Firefox ...
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Computer freezes after watching Youtube videos
I had Windows 7 installed all september. But I installed Windows XP Professional back because my computer couldn't handle the new OS. Click on my profile to see my full specs.
After first boot I ...
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Windows XP - Explorer CPU spike and freeze
System: Windows XP SP3, Intel i3
Issue: Windows Explorer process spikes my CPU usage to 50% and freezes. Only resolution is to kill the process in the Task Manager and restart manually.
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How do I analyze excessive Windows kernel mode CPU usage?
My Windows XP machine recently started to semi freeze on me every odd reboot after a few minutes of usage (different programs / no additional prg start at all).
Update: I have now managed to get a ...
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Why does freezing your hard drive sometimes help to recover data (technical details)?
It appears that freezing your hard drive (literally placing it in a freezer for 12-24 hours) might help to bring the drive back to a temporarily working condition. Google has many links to various ...
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Programs Not Responding on click
When I use any application and I click it shows Not Responding for a second. It doesn't sound like a big deal, but sometimes I need to click twice or even a third time to click on button. Half of the ...
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Flashvideo scrolling results in browser- & mousefreeze
What causes a browser & mouse freeze when scrolling through flash videos?
Tested it on Vimeo & you tube in Firefox & chrome (browsers & flash are up to date)
Happens also, when other ...
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Windows freezes when watching videos
I have Acer laptop Aspire 5740 - 5780 with windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit.
I am using Chrome. Windows is 1 year old, but it's not the
first time this has happened.
Windows freezes whenever I am watching ...
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RAID array freezes Windows 7 x64 when enabled
I have a Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H with an on-board SATA RAID controller that was working fine for about a year. I have 4x1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration.
After updating the driver set to the ...
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How does a multi core computer freeze (at the hardware level)
I have a 4 core i7 computer that freezes. The display stays, but nothing will ever move again. This question is not about getting help on that particular problem, but a general question about how a ...
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My Ubuntu 11.10 does not want to shutdown sometimes
Sometimes my Ubuntu 11.10 does not want to shutdown properly. After about 3-5 boots, on shutdown it hangs.
I am updating it regularly.
Has anyone encountered this issue? Could it be because of some ...
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New Install Freezing
Today I upgraded my computer by getting a shiny new case, 2TB HDD and PSU. I clean installed Windows 7 on the Hard Drive and ever since the upgrade the computer randomly freezes. It's generally every ...
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Windows 7 freezes randomly [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I troubleshoot a Windows 7 freeze or slowness?
I have an install of Windows 7 that is a year and a half old. I never experienced any issues with it until the last ...
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Windows 7 freezes with SSD
I have a new SSD (Kingston Hyper 120GB), with a fresh installation of Windows 7 (and several HDDs). For no apparent reason, my computer freezes. I cannot move the mouse, the sound glitches, but after ...
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Is there a way to avoid stalling Windows Explorer when clicking a shortcut to a currently unavailable network location
I use shortcuts on Windows 7 to different network locations on my university. This is based on the negative experiences with networked disks in Windows XP that would severely increase logon time with ...
