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Sometimes when I power up my PC and click an icon (e.g., AOL, Mozilla Firefox), there is no response. If I move the cursor down to the bottom where the Start button is, the cursor turns into an hourglass when it is over an icon or even over the Start button. I need to hold the power on switch down for some time to power-down and then to re-start.

What is causing the same problem? What is the solution?

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@gollum,

Window system it would seem now what version?

Start the task manager at start up so you can see the total cpu and memory being used and the tasks being run and if a program is not responsing.

Suggest you allow it to sit for a time to see if if come back to you at some point and if so then look at the event system viewer to see if errors are being reported.

Go to run command on the start menu and type msconfig and see what programs are set to run on startup and disable one after another until the program go away.

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@gollum,

Here's my quick, easy, and smartass answer:

gollum wrote:

What is causing the same problem?

Your ancient desktop computer.

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What is the solution?

Buy a new one.

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@BillRM,

Thank you. WindowsXP

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@gollum,

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WindowsXP

Great I love windows xp and it is the os I run on all my family computers.

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