Hi all,

I am working on an Advent 151422 space saving all in one jobby! The problem i am having is after a while, usually when i haven't touched it for maybe an hour or so the machine becomes unresponsive! By that what i mean is i can still move the mouse all over the screen but i can't click on certain things, most of the time it only affects the start bar, i can double click on desktop icons. Another strange thing it does it give me the drop down menu when i left click aswell as right click! I have tried a wired mouse on the machine as i thought it might have something to do with the bluetooth one that was originally being used, that hasn't made any difference. I can get it working correctly again but only if i press ctrl + alt + del and then esc out of the task manager menu, after that everything returns back to normal!

Any Ideas what might be causing this?

Thanks

Graham

Is this on a fresh install? It sounds like there is some application in the background that is bogging the system down - does it do the same in safe mode?

I agree with Ian about the background application. Try the following. Right click the taskbar and run task Manager when you first start, go to the Processes Tab and click the CPU column twice. This brings the heavy use processes to the top of the list (most likely System Idle Process) now run Task Manager minimized and continue with your work. In the system tray you will see a dark green box which represents CPU usage. If that starts to fill with light green then something is heavily using the CPU. Restore the Task manager to the desktop and you will immediately see the heavy users at the top of the list. This may (or may not) help

This is on a new install. I used the Advent recovery media to do it. It was having this problem before the reinstall too!?!

I have task manager open at the mo but sod's law, the PC is running fine at the mo! A mixture of the system idle process, taskmanager.exe and svchost.exe are the only things using the CPU really...

I am at a bit of a loose end witht his one...

Very strange if it's happening on a fresh install. Do you notice any processes using up lots of CPU power or memory when it starts to run slow?

I have only just started to monitor the task manager recently and since i have been doing that it has been running ok, so as of yet, nothing is out of the ordinary!

It has just locked up on me now... I can't select anything on the taskbar, and i double clicked on the Microsoft Word icon on the desktop, the programme has opened up but it is now locked on the screen! I can't open up the minimised task manager icon either, i xcan move the mouse but i can't select anything at all now???

It could be that explorer.exe has crashed - can you try ending that task and see if it kicks back to life after a few seconds?

Ok i ended the explorer.exe process... waited for about 1 minute or so, it isn't coming back up by itself... I could probs get it back up by manually starting the process?

When i manually start the explorer.exe service it starts working fine again!