My HP ProBook 4520s running Windows 7 hangs intermittently

Posted by Rory Alsop on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Rory Alsop
Published on 2011-01-10T15:52:21Z Indexed on 2011/01/10 15:56 UTC
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I have not been able to trace a consistent cause, but a few times a day my laptop will hang for up to about a minute. I can still move the cursor which displays as the wait icon for whatever application I was last in, but cannot carry out any other actions.

Unfortunately I can't Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up a task manager and I just have to wait.

I can't pin it down to a particular application either, but generally I have either office apps, a browser or other tools open.

I'm tempted to think it may be network timeout on something, as I can't think of anything else which would delay for that long with such a significant impact, but as I'm more a Unix person I thought it would be worth asking here.

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