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Old August 31st 16, 03:00 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
SteveGG
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Default 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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Old August 31st 16, 03:28 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Micky
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Default 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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Old August 31st 16, 04:34 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default 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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Old August 31st 16, 06:54 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
SteveGG
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Default 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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Old August 31st 16, 06:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
SteveGG
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Default 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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