Keyboard sometimes becomes non responsive when browsing.

It doesn't happen all the time, just randomly. If I quit chrome then the window shoots to the left of the screen. I drag it back over & it's working again. any ideas?

Check the mouse/driver. The functions you mention are controlled by the OS even though you are in PS.

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When I go to open a document in CS4 and then try to right click, delete or move files while I'm in the open screen, Photoshop becomes non-responsive and I have to shut it down and restart it, thereby losing any unsaved work. It's been doing it for awhile and I've tried to find a solution, but haven't had any luck. I've deleted my cache and that didn't fix the problem.
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Check the mouse/driver. The functions you mention are controlled by the OS even though you are in PS.

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Start by removing "TuneUp." See whether there's an improvement.
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Whenever you remove system modifications, they must be removed completely, and the only way to do that is to use the uninstallation tool, if any, provided by the developers, or to follow their instructions. If the software has been incompletely removed, you may have to re-download or even reinstall it in order to finish the job.
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Back up all data before making any changes.
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When ever I got on the internet (still using firefox) it would crash after anywhere between 5-15 minutes. Since I've had good experience with FF in the past I thought it must be either the drivers or a hardware problem. So in-between crashes I updated all the drivers. Still had the same problem. Took the computer to a friend who knows more about computers than I do, made sure all the drivers were updated, same problem. We thought that it might be a hardware problem (bad video card, chipset, overheating issues, etc.), but after my friend played around with my computer for a day he found that when he didn't start FF at all it worked fine, even after watching a movie, or going through a playlist on Youtube.
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Server 2008 becomes non-responsive intermittently

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I have a virtual server which becomes non-responsive intermittently. The mstsc command will not give the login window and will push me back to the mstsc login screen ( where we enter the hostname we want to remote into ). If I try to login from Vmware console;
after entering the credentials and hit enter, it will push me back to the login screen again. Then I will be left with one option, which is reset it from console.
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Hi
are there any errors in the event log when this happens? Is this server a domain controller?
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My Ipad 2 no longer displays anything.It may come on for a few seconds,but then half of the screen goes completely black, and the system becomes non responsive to all bottons. At other times all four sides of the display becomes black, about 1/4 inch.

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Try a Reset...
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Step 1
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Triple-click the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBookSourceSync
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
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*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
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Step 2
A. If you use iCloud, uncheck the box marked Contacts in the iCloud preference pane. Press return to confirm, or click Keep on Mac in the dialog that opens.
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3) Run the application, and make sure the application is running with JRE7.
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I am having an occasional, but seemingly becoming more frequent, problem in which the screen becomes non-functional during calls. My immediate impression is of removing the phone from my ear to end a call and the screen not lighting up. Eventually, after I played with the buttons (which may or may not have really helped) the phone lit up. This has also happened when the phone was ringing, making it impossible to take the call.
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Ideas? Solutions?
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It is probably not 'hanging'. Disregard any messages
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Encoding audio is the slowest part of rendering, and
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Wow. I thought the video would take the longest! And then once I thought there was a problem, I got all paranoid and kept checking it and I saw that the little burning icon wasn't spinning so I assumed it was stuck, which made me check the force quit thingy which then apparently lied to me!!! Before when I burned previous copies of this I just went away and didn't check it for a long time so I'm thinking that I never noticed it.
Make sure no other application is running, make sure
you have not set the hard disk to go to sleep and
that the screen saver will not come on. Leave it
overnight, or have a 36 hole game of golf.
The screen saver did come on once so I wonder if that was an issue and I did figure out to stop it from putting itself to sleep... I have 158 GB of free space on the hard drive so I think i'm OK on space! I will try to set it up and LEAVE it alone -- in fact, I will leave the building for a while! You know when it was looking frozen to me it was very rarely making little tiny clicking sounds but so much less than when it was doing the audio that I thought it wasn't working right! That's what happens when we assume, I guess!
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