Can anyone help? My WinXP Home hangs every once in a while. Usually there is
some file copying done when it happens. This phenomenon started after I once
ran some 5 or 6 7zip processes concurrently, which was too much for my
machine. Sometimes the computer hangs during 7zipping.

By "hangs" I mean that: the mouse works, but the taskbar buttons are dead. I
can select windows only if they are visible when the problem happens. And
then, some windows work and some don't. Windows Explorer windows are dead.
Bash windows (ntvdm) work as long as I can get to them. Firefox is dead, as
far as I recall.

Herzl Regev wrote:
> Can anyone help? My WinXP Home hangs every once in a while. Usually
> there is some file copying done when it happens. This phenomenon
> started after I once ran some 5 or 6 7zip processes concurrently,
> which was too much for my machine. Sometimes the computer hangs
> during 7zipping.
>
> By "hangs" I mean that: the mouse works, but the taskbar buttons
> are dead. I can select windows only if they are visible when the
> problem happens. And then, some windows work and some don't.
> Windows Explorer windows are dead. Bash windows (ntvdm) work as
> long as I can get to them. Firefox is dead, as far as I recall.

Given the information in your three posts...

Check your hardware for issues: Memory, Hard Drive, Power Supply, etc.
Don't know how - might consider a professional.

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Try ShellexView
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Coul be a bad context menu handler. A conyext menu handler is a shell
extension handler that adds commands to an exsxting context menu.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

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"Herzl Regev" wrote:

> Can anyone help? My WinXP Home hangs every once in a while. Usually there is
> some file copying done when it happens. This phenomenon started after I once
> ran some 5 or 6 7zip processes concurrently, which was too much for my
> machine. Sometimes the computer hangs during 7zipping.
>
> By "hangs" I mean that: the mouse works, but the taskbar buttons are dead. I
> can select windows only if they are visible when the problem happens. And
> then, some windows work and some don't. Windows Explorer windows are dead.
> Bash windows (ntvdm) work as long as I can get to them. Firefox is dead, as
> far as I recall.