Re: Desktop freezes.
Originally Posted by
carol
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Yes - links to the internet.
How can a simple act like turning it on & off cure the problem? - that's what puzzles me.
Hi Carol,
The problem you are talking about can be on several levels. However, it sounds to me like you are talking about either bookmarks in your browser or tabs in your browser (IE).
First of all, I would highly recommend using Chrome like others here have mentioned already. It will make things a lot easier and IE has been marked by many shady figures as a go to platform to find people to abuse.
Downloading Chrome can be done here:
https://www.google.com/chrome/browse...top/index.html
Next to that, I believe your cache is full. This means that your browser is storing a lot of things of websites, originally meant to make browsing quicker.
However, if this happens over the timespan of years, the program will find it difficult to find the right files and if the program isn't made well (which IE isn't), it will crash; making everything freeze.
See it this way: You use your browser and at some point you say that it has to go and fetch some files. So it goes into this massive library filled with a book about every website you have saved since you have been using the program. Now it has to find the file.. But when it does find the file, it doesn't remember the way back out of the library.
Which brings us to what I quoted of you. The program we are speaking about is rooted into your operating system; you installed it there. And for it to work, it needs to access files and a thing called the registry. However, when the program crashes, it leaves it up to Windows to straighten it out and Windows has a very similar system...
So in the end, this program can cause your operating system to become obsessed with solving something IE did and ignoring the rest. But then you are sick and tired of it and make it restart.
Poof! All memories of this event are stored to a log and locked away. And the start up sequence is quite stable, so then everything work again... until it has to fetch another book and gets lost.
So getting Chrome is better, because it handles your cache better (but still not perfect). And it would be useful to clean up the mess your programs have made over time, littering the library of Windows with useless information.
This can be done by using CCleaner which was already suggested. It's a nice program, just don't buy into the purchase options, you don't need them.
Piriform is the company behind CCleaner, so the best install files will always come from there. This is the link:
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
This program will basically go through all the things stored which aren't necessary (and also take a lot of space on your computer). Things like the cache and cookies of your browser, but also notes in the registry which make Windows unstable.
Hope this explained it a bit. Also keep in mind that the best case scenario is to reinstall your whole computer every 1-2 years. A program like CCleaner still depends on Windows and Windows isn't perfect like we all know. Completely reinstalling will actually delete everything and create a new base you can trust on.