Introduction To “Program Not Responding”
Scenerio 1: You’re
sitting in front of your PC and you decide to open an application. You
double click the icon and you are now looking at an hour glass. You
continue to wait and watch as the hour glass keeps spinning. Finally
after two to three minutes you get the dreaded message, “Program Not
Responding”.
Scenerio 2: You’re currently working
with an application such as Excel. You have spent over an hour putting
together a killer spreadsheet, when all of the sudden the program locks
up and freezes. Finally after two to three minutes you get the dreaded
message, “Program Not Responding”.
Does this look familiar? In this case, the Windows program “Notepad” is not responding.
Least Common Causes
The most popular questions we receive surrounds the
fact that people want to know why in the world this happens? There are
several reasons for this annoying entity.
First, as you add and remove programs, your system
files become scattered throughout your hard drive. This term is called,
“fragmented”. Sometimes running your disk defragmenter utility will fix
the problem but don’t be surprised if it doesn’t.
Another reason for this is your PC could be infected
with melicious SpyWare or AdWare. These tiny programs which run in the
background of your PC monitor your every move and slow your computer
down to a crawl.
Unfortuneatly one of the symptoms from these programs is receiving the dreaded “Program Not responding” error message.
The Most Common Cause… & The Solution!
The third reason (and most common) is a corrupt
system registry. As you install and un-install programs, your registry
can become corrupt and unstable.
Just as your car needs regular tune ups, your PC also
needs regular maintenance. SpeedyPC can solve your “Program Not
Responding” messages!
Once you have rid your system of unwanted SpyWare and
AdWare, and ran your first ‘clean up” scan, it is important to make
sure your system registry is cleaned at regular intervals. How so? By
using SpeedyPC!
