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From: burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Windows has lately started freezing up.
Keywords: PROBLEM FREEZE COLD ICE BRRR ANTARCTICA MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
Message-ID: <1666@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 90 21:08:00 GMT
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Organization: Unisys Network Computing Group, San Jose
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In article <2789@randvax.UUCP> cave@rand-unix.UUCP (Jonathan Cave) writes:
>Say, I'm glad others have been having this problem.  For me it happens
>with particular regularity in Excel: ask for a recalc, get a permanent
>(up to 3-fingered salute) hourglass instead.  But it also happens in
>other apps.  Two possible "causes" in my case: PC-NFS, and (based on recent
>traffic here) curse.exe.  Is there a pattern?

Wow !!!  I have similar freezeup problems on my true-blue IBM PC AT.  (yeah,
I'm getting a 386 Real Soon Now.)  My freezeups are so intermittent that it's
hard to reproduce the problem. Funny part is that they happen even in DOS.

Symptoms are mouse clicks and keystrokes not taking effect.  But the mouse 
arrow still moves (say in MS Word 4.0) and I can still reboot from the keyboard.

Any suggestions?  I feel encouraged by the other postings  to post a more detailed

description of my system hardware and configuration, complete with config.sys
and autoexec.bat files.

--Phil Burton--
--Unisys (nee Convergent Technologies)