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  2. Why is my computer so slow? - AOL

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    Frequent Freezing or Crashing: If your computer frequently freezes, hangs or crashes while performing tasks, it could be due to insufficient system resources, overheating or software issues.

  3. Troubleshooting AOL Desktop Gold

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    Desktop Gold doesn't provide dial-up internet connectivity and can only be used if you already have a broadband internet connection. If you're having trouble getting online, check to see if the issue is with your internet connection.Our help article, Troubleshooting a Broadband Connection, provides some useful troubleshooting tips. If you are ...

  4. Hang (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In many cases programs may appear to be hung, but are making slow progress, and waiting a few minutes will allow the task to complete. Modern operating systems provide a mechanism for terminating hung processes, for instance, with the Unix kill command, or through a graphical means such as the Task Manager's "end task" button in Windows (select the particular process in the list and press "end ...

  5. Spinlock - Wikipedia

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    With large numbers of processors, adding a random exponential backoff delay before re-checking the lock performs even better than TTAS. [4] [5] A few multi-core processors have a "power-conscious spin-lock" instruction that puts a processor to sleep, then wakes it up on the next cycle after the lock is freed.

  6. Busy waiting - Wikipedia

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    In computer science and software engineering, busy-waiting, busy-looping or spinning is a technique in which a process repeatedly checks to see if a condition is true, such as whether keyboard input or a lock is available. Spinning can also be used to generate an arbitrary time delay, a technique that was necessary on systems that lacked a ...

  7. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    This was retained in the final release (version 1.01); however it mostly prints out random characters instead due to the remaining text messages being removed during development. [4] This is not a crash screen, however; upon crashing, Windows 1.0 would simply lock up or exit to DOS. This behavior is also present in Windows 2.0 and Windows 2.1.

  8. Uptime - Wikipedia

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    Uptime is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the period of time a machine, typically a computer, has been continuously working and available. Uptime is the opposite of downtime . Htop adds an exclamation mark when uptime is longer than 100 days.

  9. Exponential backoff - Wikipedia

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    Resend a frame after either 0 seconds or 51.2 μs, chosen at random. If that fails, resend the frame after either 0 s, 51.2 μs, 102.4 μs, or 153.6 μs. If that still fails, resend the frame after k · 51.2 μs, where k is a random integer between 0 and 2 3 − 1.

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