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Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Jul 2000 01:29:37 -0400
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> From:    Greg Roy <[log in to unmask]>
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> Now what happens is that my system seems to hesitate at random points, by
> hesitate I mean that it'll temporarily freeze (well at least keyboard/mouse
> and video will freeze up, sometimes whatever program was running will
> continue to run).

Is something running in the background? - TSRs, adware, virus?

When the system freezes, is the hard drive active? - If the drive is nearly
full, it could be thrashing - looking for a place to put the swap file.

Boyd Ramsay

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