not responding

My computer often freezes and becomes unresponsive. I can move the mouse and the UI is responsive to varying degrees, but even if anything loads, it takes ages. I usually have to resort to forced shutdown. I do not think it is a hardware issue, since Linux runs flawlessly. I checked the event...

As I have posted the title this is one of the problems I have, if I leave the computer for any length of time I come back to find the page not responding so I hit the refresh button and nothing happens, it looks like its going to work in the window, but that's it, I have to shut down the window...

I hope this is the right forum to place this topic, if not I'm truly sorry. However, I am at my wits end and I need some help if anyone has experienced this before. Recently my Windows Media Player has stop responding, it will open up when I click the icon but from there it freezes at the...

Temporary freezes and occasional "not responding" messages are not often seen in Windows 8, but occur much more frequently than they do in W7. Same hardware, same software. Only the drives and a few drivers differ. These hesitations arise in various programs or while manipulating UI...

Hello all. I hope someone can help me with something I've not been able to find a solution to on my own. However, I hope that this doesn't fall into the ranks of dumb-*** questions... :redface: Is there any way of extending the time between when a programme starts 'not responding' and the...

"not responding due to a long running script" This is the message I get just about everytime I go from one site to another site using IE9 on Windows 7 which makes my computer almost useless because it freezes all the time. It's not a virus. Can anyone help solve this problem?

I have had my HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC (with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1) for less than a year and I am encountering a ton of problems. Whenever I go to open a program, it unresponds for a short while before I can continue to use it. Sometimes my keyboard acts up, for...

A friend of mine is having problems with her Windows XP, she has a Dell machine. Here is what she sent me, any clue what it can be?

Windows 7 was switched from Windows 7 Home premiere to Windows 7 Basic at the time. (Which is normal for it) I was closing a few programs, and they took a while to close. I got the not responding errors for one of them and let it close on its own so it wouldn't mess with my saved file. After it...

We are using Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and when any of the users leave their workstation for any reason and are gone for more than a minute or two, the programs they were running at the time will go to "not responding" when they try to click on anything in them. They cant open new programs...

I'm sure there is a thread somewhere regarding my issue, but the issue is too general for me to fine-tune my search and find it. So, for that, my apologies. My issue is this: 2 year old build been working just fine. Suddenly now I'm getting many programs "Not Responding", screen goes pale...

Earlier today i was using firefox and it was working find. I turn on the computer and now it won't open or even uninstall. I close all instances on task manager and have restarted but nothing is working. I refuse to do a system restore, i don't think i even have any restore points. What...

Things were working great for on Friday, then all of a sudden yesterday I started getting a "DNS not responding"? on my desktop. All my wireless devices work fine, and when I turn off my laptop's wi-fi card and plug it into the same router it works as well. I've done some Googleing on the...

a few days ago my laptop started to act weird. Programs would be slow to start up and i would get not responding errors on most programs for a few seconds and then the program would run normally but whenever i click on something in the program or do anything else it would not respond for a few...

Hi, My windows keeps getting stuck regardless of whatever software I am using. Every few minutes it says (NOT RESPONDING) at the top of whatever window that I have open. I checked task manager and there it says CPU Usage and Memory Usage is relatively low so that does not seem to be a problem...

Hello people of this Forum! I've had this current computer since December 18th 2011 and ever since that day, I had this issue with all browsers(Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE) that Youtube videos would be a godawful experience(Video/Screen/Player freezing for 10-60 seconds of first starting the...

Hi, While watching a Youtube Video I suddenly got a garbled screeching sound then some pauses. My mouse then locked up, and I tried Ctl/Alt/Delete to get to the Task Mgr but could not bring it up. Suddenly I then got the Blue Screen. I have 12 gig memory so I didn't think that was the problem...

Fixes an issue in which Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010 or Microsoft Streets & Trips 2011 stops responding at the startup screen during startup. This issue occurs if the processor on a computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows 7 SP1... Link Removed

What will i do i have this problems: I already installed Adobe Photoshop CS2 but when i run Photoshop,It is always (Not Responding) Can someone help me please :)

My Windows 7 system and/or Office 207 Professional occasionally 'lock up' and gives me the chance to report the error before closing the program involved. The PC Issues flag has two solutions, one for Skype and one for Microsoft Office. Which ever one I try to read the action centre screen...