Something New. Freeze Up when I post a reply

[Riverkilt]

Course no way to get the word out if it does it here....four times today when I post a reply and hit the post button the website freezes up. Won't respond to anything except closing it out...

No clue why....just does.

I'm hitting the big blue reply to thread button with the + sign...then hitting the post quick reply button after I've typed the message. Tried it again by going advanced and it took that way.

Gotta love the coyote lurking on line...

[Riverkilt]

Trying it on this thread....testing...

[Riverkilt]

So that worked, but trying to edit it so say its intermittent it froze up again....no clue what'll happen here..

[Steve Ashton]

Ron,

From all the problems you are reporting I'm getting a pretty good feel that they are the result of something on your end, with your computer. Some other program causing a conflict or a process or application running in the background that is causing all these problems.

It may be that the reason it happens with X Marks, is that this is such a large program. Every time you even log onto the site your computer is loading all the date, threads, posts and pics from the last time you logged off. That is a lot of electrons being inconvenienced.

I know you are not a 'puter geek but try this. Hit and hold down for just a moment three keys simultaneously. Control, Alt and Delete. We used to call this "The Three Finger Salute". Back in the day when computers were in their infancy things would always go haywire. This was a way of dumping out of everything so you could figure out what went wrong.

Holding down these three keys for a moment will bring up a new box. It's called the "Windows Task Manager" If you look in the box associated with the first tab on the left you should see all the programs your computer has currently running. X Marks should be on the list. If you have more than one or two programs running shut some of them down.

Now, click on the second tab from the left. This will bring up a list of all the stuff that is running in the background of your machine. Depending on how old your machine is and what you have loaded in the past, such as maybe a little thing that will show your the current weather in your area, You may have as few as 25 or as many as 200 processes currently running in the background that you had no idea were even there.

Now click on the third tab from the left. This is called "Performance" You should now see a little scrolling graph. The top graph is your computers' memory usage. If you are not doing anything this chart should not go over about 30%. If it does you have something running in the background.

This other program or process is using all your memory resources. This could very easily cause X Marks to freeze up because this other thing is using tying up your memory resource.

Let me know what you find out.

[Riverkilt]

Of course this reply froze up when I went in with the blue button....trying with the gray bar reply arrow. Will paste to emal if it freezes up again.

Know about cnt alt del as a hard boot...didn't know it brought up all this stuff now. Pretty cool

Had about 30 things running and CPU memory was at 1%. Somewhere else it said it was at 1.64 gigs.

Gonna hit go advanced to see if it posts that way. Otherwise email

[Riverkilt]

So I'm at work now and tried a reply to another thread...if its my computer the one at work (all super high tech) should work fine. It froze too when I did the blue reply button and the normal post reply button.

It did work if I did the gray reply button with the arrow and the advanced button...hope this does too.

If so - point is same behavior on two very different computers...oops...I don't se a go advanced button here...may be screwed...if so it'll come by email

[Macman]

I've been having exactly the same issue as Ron. Steve, I tried what you suggested and the box doesn't seem to be overloaded. I use the computer, but don't know what makes it go!

[Deirachel]

Ron,

Question 1, do you have programs on both the work and personal computer to help you work on the go?

Question 2, what programs are you using for security such as Anti-virus, anti-malware, etc.?

[Riverkilt]

No clue if this will work, tried this morning and it froze harder than before. Emailed Steve to pass this on, maybe he did.

Totally seperate computers at work and home. Navajo Nation controlled desktop at work. I can't even upgrade adobe, IT dept 5 hours away in Window Rock has to do it when they visit every few months. No clue what their anti virus is.

I use Norton on my laptop at home.

[Deirachel]

If they are using Norton or MacAfee, that might be the problem. Either of them are memory hogs. The 1.64 GB part above. They also have a habit of spiking your processor usage.

Do you have a anti-Malware program?