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This happens to me once in a great while. Just now I had terminated
a program (Norton's One Button Check Up) but after several minutes of
constant disk activity and very very sluggish windows response, I
decided to do a restart. Before doing so I checked the task manager
which indicated the system idle process consuming 90-97 percent of CPU
although total CPU usage never showed as more than 20%.
Even after the "shutting down screen" appeared there were 2 or 3 more
minutes of constant disk activity, but then 5 minutes more had passed
with no disk activity so I powered it off and back on.
Two Questions:
1) Alternative solutions once the shutdown screen has been reached
and disk access stops.
2) How to avoid this occurring.
TIA
This happens to me once in a great while. Just now I had terminated
a program (Norton's One Button Check Up) but after several minutes of
constant disk activity and very very sluggish windows response, I
decided to do a restart. Before doing so I checked the task manager
which indicated the system idle process consuming 90-97 percent of CPU
although total CPU usage never showed as more than 20%.
Even after the "shutting down screen" appeared there were 2 or 3 more
minutes of constant disk activity, but then 5 minutes more had passed
with no disk activity so I powered it off and back on.
Two Questions:
1) Alternative solutions once the shutdown screen has been reached
and disk access stops.
2) How to avoid this occurring.
TIA