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Word keeps locking up (Not Responding)
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Some of the time when opening Word or while working in Word, the program locks up and at the top of the page I get the message (Not Responding). I have run the diagnostics program several times but it doesn't find any thing wrong. How do I fix this? Thanks How long do you wait before bailing out when you see the "not resonding" message? What that message really means is that the processor is too busy to do what you've asked it to do, and the "not responding" might go away if you give it the time to finish whatever it's doing. Try waiting for, say, two full minutes before you bail out; to see if the cpu can get around to servicing the latest request. OTOH the probram might really be in outer space or in a loop somewhere; "Not Responding" messages don't make that distinction. As long as you're using a fairly good machine, two minutes is long enough to see if the cpu can get back to you. I once had it go to four minutes but that was the exception to the rule. If System Idle % is like 2 or 3 %, there's nothing happening and you can close it out. If the cpu time is in the high 90%s, you'll have trouble getting TaskManage to open, so once again, close out. It's something to do while waiting for the two minutes to pass and gives some hint about the system's performance at that moment. If System Idle is 0%, it's also locked up, so go ahead and bail out after two minutes. There are more technical tests that can be made, but most often intermittant problems like yours are a matter of not waiting long enough for the cpu to get back to service the not responding window. If/when it comes back, the not responding will go away. HTH, Twayne` -- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. |
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