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Windows goes into Incredibly Slow mode
My Windows 7 PC quite often slows down to a geriatric snail's pace. In this state the mouse pointer lags several seconds behind what my mouse is telling it to do (which makes positioning the mouse quite difficult), it takes ages to respond to CTRL/ALT/DEL, or to draw the Task Manager window on the screen, and it's really not possible to do any real work.
I imagine that what has happened is that I have opened too many applications or documents, and that memory has run out, requiring zillions of page swaps in order to actually run any software. My question is, how can an operating system which is supposed to be of professional quality, and which millions of people and businesses all over the world depend on, be that crap at managing memory? Is it not a feature of an operating system to prevent the user from getting into this sort of mess, and providing a way out?
A secondary question is, how can I avoid getting into this situation (without needlessly restricting myself to only one application open at a time or similar), and how once in it can I easily get out of it?
Thanks - Rowan