freeze

Mon
25
Feb
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How to Fix: Boot Windows 10 using Basic Display Adapter Driver

Infopackets Reader Barry S. writes: " Dear Dennis, I am having problems with my computer's display freezing randomly, though it usually happens within 3 minutes of booting into Windows 10. Oftentimes the system will lock up during boot. When this ... happens, my hard drive light on the PC keeps flickering away like it's still loading, which suggests to me that there is something wrong with my video card. I tested this theory by using remote desktop to connect to my main PC from my laptop. To my surprise the PC was still working as it should via remote desktop, though as I mentioned the display ... (view more)

Tue
26
Jun
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'Toolwiz Time Freeze 1.9', and 'Top Process Monitor 4.5'

Toolwiz Time Freeze 1.9 Toolwiz Time Freeze is a small, free piece of software designed to protect your computer from undesired changes. Basically, the software clones your computer system, creating working copies of your important files that you ... can use without risking your "real" system. This is great if you often install new software and/or hardware just to see if it's useful. It's also good for creating a "development" system on which you work up new software code that might crash your system by mistake. Toolwiz Time Freeze can also protect your files and folders from ... (view more)

Tue
30
Dec
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'Anti Freeze', and 'Sanity Check'

Anti Freeze With its emergency task manager, AntiFreeze offers a last recourse when you find your computer in a hung state. It will put to sleep all running programs except the most critical ones, giving you the opportunity to close down the ... programs which are causing problems. You may even be able to save or recover your work! http://www.resplendence.com/antifreeze Sanity Check SanityCheck is an advanced rootkit and malware detection tool for Windows that thoroughly scans the system for threats and irregularities which indicate malware or rootkit behavior. By making use of special deep ... (view more)

Tue
04
Dec
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'Anti Freeze', and 'Printer Anywhere'

Anti Freeze Anti Freeze offers a last recourse when you find your computer in a hung state. Because programs consume too much CPU or too much memory or too many programs have been started, your computer has can become unresponsive. The mouse might ... still move but no programs are responding and you cannot switch to other programs or even close them. You have even tried to start the Windows Task Manager and even that won't work because it does not get enough attention from the scheduler to respond to your mouse clicks and keyboard presses. Rather than press the restart button, you can press the ... (view more)

Sun
09
Jul
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Freeze and Unfreeze Rows and Columns: MS Excel

When your spreadsheet has labels in the top row or left column to describe the data in the cells, you can freeze those rows and columns so that they always appear on screen even when you scroll down or to the right. Open MS Excel and in the first ... row type your headings (i.e. Category, Title, Author, Quantity, Costs, etc.) In the left-most column, type other data labels (i.e. Fiction, Non-Fiction, Sci-Fi., etc.) When you use the Window | Freeze Panes command, everything above the current row or to the left of the current column is frozen in place. This way, it's always visible to you, even ... (view more)

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