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Dells Window shell will not respond
Here is a weird one I have never seen before, and it is not spyware or a virus.
On my Dell Inspiron 1720 with Windows Vista Home it just started this yesterday after I woke it up from about a four day hibernation.
I hardly ever shut the laptop down, I let it go into standby after about an hour after the screen goes blank.
If you then let it sit in standby mode for about twenty hours, it hibernates by powering down all the way.
Then you have to push the power button to awake it, and it goes into Windows again where you left off.
Yesterday after I woke it up, the Windows shell would not respond.
I could move the cursor with both the wireless mouse and the touch pad.
But when you mouse over the Start button, any of the shortcuts in the sys tray or desktop and pushed them, you get the hourglass/busy icon for the cursor.
If you let it go for awhile, a message will pop up that Windows Explorer is not responding.
I can then use CTRL/ALT/DEL to assess the task manager, and there is nothing running that should not be.
I have tried to enter safe mode to no avail, the text locks up at chkdisc, and I have to reboot.
It then will do a diagnostics on its own, then enter Windows after a bit, but the same thing.
Anyone seen this situation before?
Going to call Dell today and see what they say.
I do have the Dell Restore on a partition of the hard drive, and also on the DVD that came with the system, but that will be a last resort.
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