On 10/11/2011 12:58 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 08:41 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 10/11/2011 12:10, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> I suppose Windows also doesn't stop responding when you change your
>>> TCP/IP
>>> configuration settings?
>>
>> Um, no?
>>
>>> (Actually, that one seems to vary. On some
>>> computers, you change it and it doesn't even blink. On others, you
>>> change it
>>> and have to sit there for multiple minutes before it wakes up again...)
>>
>> Maybe your DHCP server is hosed up or something?
>
> It seems to be more common with laptops, so maybe it's related to Wi-Fi
> or something... Or maybe I'm imaginig that part.
>
>>> Since Explorer is 90% of the Windows GUI, that's not a particularly
>>> drastic difference...
>>
>> Only if you don't interact with actual programs. Saying "the GUI locks
>> up" on Linux, for example, means every program stops responding because
>> you just crashed the X server.
>
> OK. I can't change window [because the task bar isn't working, and
> Alt+Tab isn't working], I can't open Task Manager to see what's
> happening, I can't lock or unlock the screen [Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't do
> anything]. But sure, if I happen to have an application open, maybe it
> stays running. [I haven't ever tested that.]
>
This is actually possibly the case. I have had "other" things cause a 
similar result. Generally, they peg some process, or memory handling, or 
something to max, and only lock the application *causing it*. The 
problem of course being, if you are in the application that created the 
problem, the whole thing seems to stop bloody working, and you can't get 
out of it, to do anything else, including ctrl-alt-del.

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