A freeze.
Everything just stops responding, Mouse pointer will not move, keyboard will not respond. And yet, apart from that, everything (at a certain level) still seems to be working.
Whatever one was doing at the time is still there on the screen, It will stay there for hours if not days, (until one re-boots) but at the same time the clock has stopped.
When I restart, most programs will restore themselves to the state they were before, whether it is a web browser or a word processor or whatever.
So, what has stopped, what is still working, and why does this happen??
This is one of those computer things that I have just put up with for the last 20 years or so (Possibly even longer if truth be told) simply because all you have to do is re-boot and get back to work.
But I have never really seen an explanation as to what has actually happened.
Can somebody explain what has actually happened when a system freezes?
Everything just stops responding, Mouse pointer will not move, keyboard will not respond. And yet, apart from that, everything (at a certain level) still seems to be working.
Whatever one was doing at the time is still there on the screen, It will stay there for hours if not days, (until one re-boots) but at the same time the clock has stopped.
When I restart, most programs will restore themselves to the state they were before, whether it is a web browser or a word processor or whatever.
So, what has stopped, what is still working, and why does this happen??
This is one of those computer things that I have just put up with for the last 20 years or so (Possibly even longer if truth be told) simply because all you have to do is re-boot and get back to work.
But I have never really seen an explanation as to what has actually happened.
Can somebody explain what has actually happened when a system freezes?
