Dan O'Dowd
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I have some form of problem with my laptop which is hard to pinpoint.
I use Firefox and Skype and since yesterday when Skype annoyingly autoupdated itself again I've had a recurrence of a problem that used to bug me something rotten.
When I have Firefox open (which is always the latest version; currently 25), if I attempt to open either Notepad or Task Manager, or even the start bar, the system freezes up. Task Manager's box outline comes up but is white and frozen, and I cannot switch tabs to anything else visibly because it stays on top in vision. But I can still interact with the other 'supposedly' top tab, blind. I end up having to completely quit Firefox, and wait a moment, before the system sorts itself out, and Tasky or Notepad are then totally usable. Notepad when opened is usable until I tab out and back in, and then does the smae thing. Even now the Start menu is overlain across my firefox page and is not disappeared. ://
The infuriating bit is that this means whatever Flash videos and bandwidth I've used and opened, has to be closed and re-opened, so it's costing me in that area too. The most recent version of Skype seems to be what triggered this - indeed the whole problem only started a while ago once Microsoft had bought Skype, but the update before this one had stopped the problem happening.
I use Windows 7 64-bit, on an Acer Aspire 5750. 4Gb RAM too, though you wouldn't know it by the way Adobe Flash eats that stuff...
I use Firefox and Skype and since yesterday when Skype annoyingly autoupdated itself again I've had a recurrence of a problem that used to bug me something rotten.
When I have Firefox open (which is always the latest version; currently 25), if I attempt to open either Notepad or Task Manager, or even the start bar, the system freezes up. Task Manager's box outline comes up but is white and frozen, and I cannot switch tabs to anything else visibly because it stays on top in vision. But I can still interact with the other 'supposedly' top tab, blind. I end up having to completely quit Firefox, and wait a moment, before the system sorts itself out, and Tasky or Notepad are then totally usable. Notepad when opened is usable until I tab out and back in, and then does the smae thing. Even now the Start menu is overlain across my firefox page and is not disappeared. ://
The infuriating bit is that this means whatever Flash videos and bandwidth I've used and opened, has to be closed and re-opened, so it's costing me in that area too. The most recent version of Skype seems to be what triggered this - indeed the whole problem only started a while ago once Microsoft had bought Skype, but the update before this one had stopped the problem happening.
I use Windows 7 64-bit, on an Acer Aspire 5750. 4Gb RAM too, though you wouldn't know it by the way Adobe Flash eats that stuff...
Bump - can nobody help with this?
