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WinME freezes 10 seconds at a time

By bill-beaton ·
This is a home-computer, and neither reverting to 98 or upgrading to W2K is an option ... some important device drivers aren't available for those, nor do I want to purchase more MS licenses.

Symptom; the mouse (or sometimes just windows) freeze for anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds, and then the machine comes back. Reboot restores reasonable behavior.

I'm hoping to locate some downloadable patch (MS doesn't have one), or just change some setup or registry item.

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WinME freezes 10 seconds at a time

by JANKERSON In reply to WinME freezes 10 seconds ...

Format the drive and reinstall Windows.

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by bill-beaton In reply to WinME freezes 10 seconds ...

Too many applications with data to re-install. Obviously a simple backup won't work in this circumstance.

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WinME freezes 10 seconds at a time

by RAMAC-9846778 In reply to WinME freezes 10 seconds ...

Have you tried disabling Find Fast?

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WinME freezes 10 seconds at a time

by bill-beaton In reply to WinME freezes 10 seconds ...

Yes, that is an absolute on Windows for me.

The system here just freezes after a mouse click ... doesn't much matter what's running, the mouse cursor still moves slowly, but no mouse clicks are accepted. Then, after a while, it starts behavingagain. Sometimes (not always) rebooting helps, which could be indicating a memory leak ... mainly IE (exploder) and Outlook 2000 are what run, although the Shockwave plugin is generally active in the home page on this machine.

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