Don't know another word to describe this, and it doesn't seem (according to Google) that this is a well-known phenomenon. Only started happening in the last few days.
What happens goes like this: Some app will pause while trying to do something. It pauses indefinitely. When this happens, every other app I try to access thereafter will also fail to actually do anything. This quickly spirals to the point where the entire OS - including any attempts to access task manager - is similarly stuck. For example, one time I tried searching for something on Youtube. Youtube gives a brief red line at the top indicating load progress. Well this line paused at about 2/3rds of the way, and that was that for Chrome.
When this happens, the absolute best I can hope for is to tiptoe around other apps that may be busy with things, and try to salvage something. Usually this is futile. A hard reset is the only way to recover.
What I am hoping here is that someone might have a good idea about what might specifically be causing this to happen. For example, were this a case of it being bad ram, I would expect a blue screen or an outright freezing of everything, not this weird kind of OS aneurysm.
Malwarebytes etc. find nothing, for what that's worth.
What happens goes like this: Some app will pause while trying to do something. It pauses indefinitely. When this happens, every other app I try to access thereafter will also fail to actually do anything. This quickly spirals to the point where the entire OS - including any attempts to access task manager - is similarly stuck. For example, one time I tried searching for something on Youtube. Youtube gives a brief red line at the top indicating load progress. Well this line paused at about 2/3rds of the way, and that was that for Chrome.
When this happens, the absolute best I can hope for is to tiptoe around other apps that may be busy with things, and try to salvage something. Usually this is futile. A hard reset is the only way to recover.
What I am hoping here is that someone might have a good idea about what might specifically be causing this to happen. For example, were this a case of it being bad ram, I would expect a blue screen or an outright freezing of everything, not this weird kind of OS aneurysm.
Malwarebytes etc. find nothing, for what that's worth.
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