Howdy!
When I was running Windows 7 (64-bit), I noticed that Firefox would hang fairly regularly. Now that I'm running Windows 8.1 (64-bit), several of my memory-intensive 32-bit programs hang badly. If I'm using one (example: heavy duty technical illustrating or Firefox), they will stop and give me the "busy" icon for several minutes. it isn't unusual for Windows to report that they have stopped responding, even though they will often finish whatever they were doing. It will also cause the rest of my desktop to slow down.
I'm running Windows 8.1 (64 bit) on a laptop with an AMD A10-5750M and 6 gb RAM. It's not the zippiest hardware out there, but Task Manager says that even when something is stalled, I'm still not close to maxing out my CPU cycles, RAM and disk access. Frankly, several of these programs run better in XP. Unfortunately, 64-bit versions of most of these programs aren't yet available.
Can somebody please explain what's happening?
When I was running Windows 7 (64-bit), I noticed that Firefox would hang fairly regularly. Now that I'm running Windows 8.1 (64-bit), several of my memory-intensive 32-bit programs hang badly. If I'm using one (example: heavy duty technical illustrating or Firefox), they will stop and give me the "busy" icon for several minutes. it isn't unusual for Windows to report that they have stopped responding, even though they will often finish whatever they were doing. It will also cause the rest of my desktop to slow down.
I'm running Windows 8.1 (64 bit) on a laptop with an AMD A10-5750M and 6 gb RAM. It's not the zippiest hardware out there, but Task Manager says that even when something is stalled, I'm still not close to maxing out my CPU cycles, RAM and disk access. Frankly, several of these programs run better in XP. Unfortunately, 64-bit versions of most of these programs aren't yet available.
Can somebody please explain what's happening?