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From: landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Chris Landers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows lockup solution
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.031915.14056@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 03:19:15 GMT
References: <668448697.4413@minster.york.ac.uk>
Organization: Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University
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In article <668448697.4413@minster.york.ac.uk> paulb@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>For ages I've been having problems with Windows locking up periodically.
>It's always temporary (i.e. if you wait, the system frees up), but
>frequent.  The more concurrent activities, and the more disk accesses
>going on, the more likely it is to occur.     

I thought I had a periodic lockup problem at one time with a 2Mb machine, when
in fact (I discovered) that Windows was just busy swapping one non-Windows app.
to disk and swapping one non-Windows app to memory; I didn't notice the disk
light flashing.  When I looked at the screen, it appeared locked, but if I 
just waited awhile, the system freed up.

Could this be your problem?  Just a suggestion.

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