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Windows goes into a 'state' of nothing loading (not 'not responding')
I have this strange - and annoying - problem at times that I can't exactly pinpoint what's stopping it from working properly; nor can I find any pattern to when this might happen again.
My computer has this what I have started calling it a "mood", where it seems to 'forget' [or 'doesn't care'] to carry out the commands I give my computer. It's different to my PC "not responding" because everything still seems to be working [in that respect] (no graying out of the screen, no mouse busy pointer, no high CPU or memory usage). It's... just.. not.. loading things.
An example then:
When my computer's in this 'mood', I click on my Firefox logo and wait. Nothing happens. I click ctrl+shift+Esc, and it's there in the background - usually around 1,###kb - but it doesn't load it up fully, ever (but I think with Chrome, it loads it up, but the screen's just blank and doesn't load anything else up). I think the same goes for any program I try to load when it's in this 'mood'.
If I've got Firefox open already and I click a new tab/link/bookmark, it 'pretends' it's working but nothing happens (I don't remember if it even does a timeout after a while); the internet's on and working fine, so that's not the problem.
The only way I can solve it is just restart my computer.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?