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Does Simply Opening Task Manager Jog the System?

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Mar 15, 20264439 views
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I swear it's just in my head, but when my Windows computer hangs or freezes, I find that opening Task Manager (by either Ctrl-Alt-Del > Task Manager or Ctrl-Shift-Esc) sometimes seems to jog the computer and cause whenever program wasn't responding to start working again, or closes the window I've …

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I could see that happening if you were getting slow downs due to disk problems (as opening it may change how the disk is being accessed, making it skip or release a block it's fighting to use). It could also cause something eating all CPU to release…

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