Browser/WLM Causing Lockups?

Windows 7, Home Premium, SP1

One of my browsers (IE 11, FFOx 49.0.2,and Opera 41.0) has been causing
me problems. I haven't been able to recreate the issue on a consistent
basis. It may also involve my Windows Live Mail 2011. So far, whenever
I have WLM open, and I'm cruising in one of the above browsers,
sometimes I'll get the spinning circle in the browser, and if I move my
mouse to any other app, or a program on the start menu, the spinning
stops, but when I click on the app or other program, nothing happens.
If I go back to the browser, the spinning is still happening.

Sometimes I'll be composing an email in WLM, with browser(s) open, WLM
will exhibit the same problem.

If I do a CTRL-ALT-DEL to get to the Task Manager, nothing happens
either. I'm stuck and can't do anything on the pc. The only thing I
can do is press and hold the power button to shut down, and start again,
and lose everything I've been working on. It's happened 5 times or more
in the last week.

I've looked at the event log, but I'm not good at interpreting that.

So, yesterday I did a System Restore back to around November 2, (which I
really didn't want to do). It's only been a day, and so far, no
problems, but maybe I haven't recreated the necessary conditions to
spark this problem again.

Anyone ever see this behavior?

TIA

Boris wrote in
09.88:

Windows 7, Home Premium, SP1

One of my browsers (IE 11, FFOx 49.0.2,and Opera 41.0) has been
causing me problems. I haven't been able to recreate the issue on a
consistent basis. It may also involve my Windows Live Mail 2011. So
far, whenever I have WLM open, and I'm cruising in one of the above
browsers, sometimes I'll get the spinning circle in the browser, and
if I move my mouse to any other app, or a program on the start menu,
the spinning stops, but when I click on the app or other program,
nothing happens. If I go back to the browser, the spinning is still
happening.

Sometimes I'll be composing an email in WLM, with browser(s) open, WLM
will exhibit the same problem.

If I do a CTRL-ALT-DEL to get to the Task Manager, nothing happens
either. I'm stuck and can't do anything on the pc. The only thing I
can do is press and hold the power button to shut down, and start
again, and lose everything I've been working on. It's happened 5
times or more in the last week.

I've looked at the event log, but I'm not good at interpreting that.

So, yesterday I did a System Restore back to around November 2, (which
I really didn't want to do). It's only been a day, and so far, no
problems, but maybe I haven't recreated the necessary conditions to
spark this problem again.

Anyone ever see this behavior?

TIA



Here's the Event Log for Critical Events over the last 7 days:
The events happened on 11/19, 11/19, 11/22, 11/23, and 11/23. The
descriptions are identical. Here's one from 11/23/2016:


Critical 11/23/2016 9:29:56 AM Kernel-Power 41 (63)

Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date: 11/23/2016 9:06:25 AM
Event ID: 41
Task Category: (63)
Level: Critical
Keywords: (2)
User: SYSTEM
Computer: DadsWin7
Description:
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error
could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power
unexpectedly. Event Xml:
Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"
System
Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power"
Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" /
EventID41/EventID Version2/Version
Level1/Level
Task63/Task
Opcode0/Opcode
Keywords0x8000000000000002/Keywords
TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-11-23T17:06:25.343617300Z" /
EventRecordID180948/EventRecordID
Correlation /
Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" /
ChannelSystem/Channel
ComputerDadsWin7/Computer
Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /
/System
EventData
Data Name="BugcheckCode"0/Data
Data Name="BugcheckParameter1"0x0/Data
Data Name="BugcheckParameter2"0x0/Data
Data Name="BugcheckParameter3"0x0/Data
Data Name="BugcheckParameter4"0x0/Data
Data Name="SleepInProgress"true/Data
Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp"131243943184201209/Data
/EventData
/Event

This is when I had to hit the 'oh-****' button to power off.

Any ideas?

In message 8, Boris
writes:
Windows 7, Home Premium, SP1

One of my browsers (IE 11, FFOx 49.0.2,and Opera 41.0) has been causing
me problems. I haven't been able to recreate the issue on a consistent
basis. It may also involve my Windows Live Mail 2011. So far, whenever
I have WLM open, and I'm cruising in one of the above browsers,
sometimes I'll get the spinning circle in the browser, and if I move my
mouse to any other app, or a program on the start menu, the spinning
stops, but when I click on the app or other program, nothing happens.
If I go back to the browser, the spinning is still happening.

Sometimes I'll be composing an email in WLM, with browser(s) open, WLM
will exhibit the same problem.

If I do a CTRL-ALT-DEL to get to the Task Manager, nothing happens
either. I'm stuck and can't do anything on the pc. The only thing I
can do is press and hold the power button to shut down, and start again,
and lose everything I've been working on. It's happened 5 times or more
in the last week.

I've looked at the event log, but I'm not good at interpreting that.

So, yesterday I did a System Restore back to around November 2, (which I
really didn't want to do). It's only been a day, and so far, no
problems, but maybe I haven't recreated the necessary conditions to
spark this problem again.

Anyone ever see this behavior?

TIA

See the "sulk mode" thread: we've got something _similar_. We haven't
been able to pin down what causes it (not WLM as we don't use that - for
email we use an ancient S/W called Eudora). When "sulk mode" cuts in, we
can move the mouse cursor, and select desktop icons (they highlight),
and activate them (double-click or click and enter), at which point the
"open prog." sound plays, but the application doesn't start. And we
can't start Task Manager (e. g. by right-clicking an empty part of the
taskbar: the little menu sometimes pops up, but selecting task manager
doesn't do anything). We too have to power-off to restart the PC.

Sorry not to be able to help, but you did ask if anyone'd seen such
behaviour (-:!

[If you find a solution and think it might help us, please share!]
--
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that, you'd have to have a box for 'None of the above'."
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
:

In message 8, Boris
writes:
Windows 7, Home Premium, SP1

One of my browsers (IE 11, FFOx 49.0.2,and Opera 41.0) has been causing
me problems. I haven't been able to recreate the issue on a consistent
basis. It may also involve my Windows Live Mail 2011. So far, whenever
I have WLM open, and I'm cruising in one of the above browsers,
sometimes I'll get the spinning circle in the browser, and if I move my
mouse to any other app, or a program on the start menu, the spinning
stops, but when I click on the app or other program, nothing happens.
If I go back to the browser, the spinning is still happening.

Sometimes I'll be composing an email in WLM, with browser(s) open, WLM
will exhibit the same problem.

If I do a CTRL-ALT-DEL to get to the Task Manager, nothing happens
either. I'm stuck and can't do anything on the pc. The only thing I
can do is press and hold the power button to shut down, and start again,
and lose everything I've been working on. It's happened 5 times or more
in the last week.

I've looked at the event log, but I'm not good at interpreting that.

So, yesterday I did a System Restore back to around November 2, (which I
really didn't want to do). It's only been a day, and so far, no
problems, but maybe I haven't recreated the necessary conditions to
spark this problem again.

Anyone ever see this behavior?

TIA

See the "sulk mode" thread: we've got something _similar_. We haven't
been able to pin down what causes it (not WLM as we don't use that - for
email we use an ancient S/W called Eudora). When "sulk mode" cuts in, we
can move the mouse cursor, and select desktop icons (they highlight),
and activate them (double-click or click and enter), at which point the
"open prog." sound plays, but the application doesn't start. And we
can't start Task Manager (e. g. by right-clicking an empty part of the
taskbar: the little menu sometimes pops up, but selecting task manager
doesn't do anything). We too have to power-off to restart the PC.

Sorry not to be able to help, but you did ask if anyone'd seen such
behaviour (-:!

[If you find a solution and think it might help us, please share!]

Yes, I found your Windows 7 Sulk Mode, and yes, it is just what I am seeing
here.

I remember Eudora. It was my first corporate email program.