Computer Tips Tricks Computer Freezes
Computer Tips
Computers are great pieces of technical equipment but at times they do things that can make you frustrated, particularly for those of us who are not that computer savy. Here’s some tips that can make your computing experience much more tolerable and fun. Fairly straight forward things like defragging your hardrive and uninstalling and reinstalling the last programs that you put on your computer may help.
My computer freezes or hangs!
When your computer hangs or doesn’t seem to respond (it happens from time to time), before turning the computer off at the on/off switch, press the Ctrl, Alt, Delete keys all at the same time. Wait for a window to pop up saying “Close Program” with a list of all programs that are presently running. Look for one or more that say “Not Responding”.
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Click that program then click the ” End Task ” button at the bottom of the window. Don’t choose “Shut Down” as that turns your computer off.
Another window will pop up again saying the program is not responding. Click the ” End Task ” button on this window and the offending program will be terminated. Continue this process with any other program that is not responding.
We can’t guarantee that this will work all the time, but it is well worth a try especially if you have work you need to save. You will have somewhere to start if it is a particular program that causes the puter to hang. Uninstall this program, defrag your hardrive and reinstall to see if that solved the problem.
Most of the time the real problem of computer freeze may lie with the program that was last installed. Try uninstalling that particular program and seeing if that solves the problem. If so, reinstall and re-evaluate.
Defraging your hard drive may also help to solve the problem. See how to defrag here.
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