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System Goes Non-Responsive
Often when the system is in sleep mode and is awakened, nearly
everything becomes non-responsive to the mouse. Clicking any icon does not highlight it and of course nothing can be run. Fortunately the Start item still behaves normally and selecting ReStart then clears all, but thats a real PITA and takes time. What might this be about and how to prevent etc.? |
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System Goes Non-Responsive
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:00:02 -0400, SteveGG
wrote: Often when the system is in sleep mode and is awakened, nearly everything becomes non-responsive to the mouse. Clicking any icon does not highlight it and of course nothing can be run. Fortunately the Start item still behaves normally and selecting ReStart then clears all, but thats a real PITA and takes time. What might this be about and how to prevent etc.? Won't it start working if you wait long enough? How long do you wait before you Restart? How do you select Restart without the mouse? You must be saying the mouse does work on the Start button only. It might help to understand this if you checked the systray, quicklaunch bar, and anything else clickable, and both mouse keys. (One could just use the keyboard to restart in XP. I hate that they took that away in Vista. I don't remember it being back in 7.) Does the keyboard work even though the mouse doesn't? Is one USB and the other PS2? Is this a USB mouse or PS2? If you have a PS2 jack, I'll bet that will solve your problem. |
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System Goes Non-Responsive
SteveGG wrote:
Often when the system is in sleep mode and is awakened, nearly everything becomes non-responsive to the mouse. Clicking any icon does not highlight it and of course nothing can be run. Fortunately the Start item still behaves normally and selecting ReStart then clears all, but thats a real PITA and takes time. What might this be about and how to prevent etc.? Processes sometimes refuse to come out of sleep, or when they are asked to sleep they instead hang and take the system with them. I had that back when I used MagicJack (VOIP service). It's software made it impossible to sleep my computer. Once I got rid of their software, sleep worked just fine. So disable all startup programs using msconfig.exe. Check that sleep works okay without those startup programs. If that works, enable one startup program and retest. Repeat until the problem reappears which means the last reenabled startup program is the culprit. |
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System Goes Non-Responsive
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:28:21 -0400, Micky
wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:00:02 -0400, SteveGG wrote: Often when the system is in sleep mode and is awakened, nearly everything becomes non-responsive to the mouse. Clicking any icon does not highlight it and of course nothing can be run. Fortunately the Start item still behaves normally and selecting ReStart then clears all, but thats a real PITA and takes time. What might this be about and how to prevent etc.? Won't it start working if you wait long enough? How long do you wait before you Restart? I give it lots of time How do you select Restart without the mouse? You must be saying the mouse does work on the Start button only. Start button works fine It might help to understand this if you checked the systray, quicklaunch bar, and anything else clickable, and both mouse keys. (One could just use the keyboard to restart in XP. I hate that they took that away in Vista. I don't remember it being back in 7.) Does the keyboard work even though the mouse doesn't? Is one USB and the other PS2? When I start an app from the start key, the mouse and everything works great in the app, just still NG on the desktop. Is this a USB mouse or PS2? If you have a PS2 jack, I'll bet that will solve your problem. Mouse is USB wireless. Don't know about a PS2 jack. |
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System Goes Non-Responsive
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:34:09 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
SteveGG wrote: Often when the system is in sleep mode and is awakened, nearly everything becomes non-responsive to the mouse. Clicking any icon does not highlight it and of course nothing can be run. Fortunately the Start item still behaves normally and selecting ReStart then clears all, but thats a real PITA and takes time. What might this be about and how to prevent etc.? Processes sometimes refuse to come out of sleep, or when they are asked to sleep they instead hang and take the system with them. I had that back when I used MagicJack (VOIP service). It's software made it impossible to sleep my computer. Once I got rid of their software, sleep worked just fine. So disable all startup programs using msconfig.exe. Check that sleep works okay without those startup programs. If that works, enable one startup program and retest. Repeat until the problem reappears which means the last reenabled startup program is the culprit. Will try this ... |
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