♀◘ Tips and Tricks.. ◘♀

Ending a non-responsive program

Have you ever wonder why an application program running in a computer fails, halts, hangs or simply non-responsive to user. The cause of this frustrating situation is a deadlock. A set of processes is deadlocked if each process in the set is waiting for an event that only another process in the set can cause.

Here are some tips and tricks to escape on that particular stew:
☺ Go to the task manager by simply pressing the ctrl-alt and delete key simultaneously.
☺ Go to the application tab and locate the non-responsive program you need to end.
☺ Right click on the program and choose “end task”.

If this will not work or be it a more burden, try this :

☺ press ctrl-alt-del key again and right click on the program and choose “go to process”, which will re-direct you to the process tab.
☺ Locate the program, or it should be highlighted.
☺ Right click on the program and choose “end process” or “end process tree”.

If this will fail again... :
☺ go to the process tab and locate “explorer.exe”,
☺ right click and choose end process or end process tree.
☺ Go to the file menu of the task manager and select “New Task (Run...)”,
☺ type in explorer and the task bar should be returning and explorer should be visible on the process tab.

These procedures can help user minimise processes which consume system resources. By ending programs, applications or even system processes and task which are not essential to system performance can speed up your machine/computer.

Something to believe in...-Peter Pyke "HotRodU2"

How to speed up your system?

Try to imagine yourself on a tight schedule with loads of school activities, assignments, projects and semestral examination is fast approaching, when all of your resources can be found in your computer. Suddenly a turtle is faster than your computer's boot-up time. One cause of this is you have too many loaded programs and applications on your start-up items.

The area on your lower right side of your monitor, where you can find small icons. E.g. clock, volume control icon, antivirus icon, and so forth...This are program applications which are loaded during start-up, running on the background. This program will use system resources such as RAM (Memory), Processor time.

We can minimize this program by configuring these at the system configuration console, simply by"

☺ pointing and clicking your mouse pointer to the windows logo or start menu and locate the "run" tab.
☺ Click and type "msconfig". A window will appear and
☺ go to the start-up tab and there you can disable and enable those programs.

Be very careful not to disable essential system programs. Disabling essential system programs will create undesirable results.

Something to believe in...-Peter Pyke "HotRodU2"