What Does “Not Responding” Mean?

Published: 29 May 2023
on channel: Ask Leo!

2,512

160

⌛ "Not Responding" is Windows' way of telling you that a program might have a problem. Sometimes Not Responding benign and sometimes it's a sign of a deeper issue.

⌛ Not responding
“Not responding” happens when a program stops interacting with Windows properly. This can be due to legitimate delays, if the program is busy working, or to errors like a programming bug, design error, hardware problem, malware, and more.

Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/2722

🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub

✅ Watch next ▶ The #1 Reason Your Computer is Slow ▶ • The #1 Reason Your Computer is Slow

Chapters
0:00 Not Responding
1:00 Programs are expected to respond to Windows
1:45 Legitimate delays
3:39 Internet issues
4:28 Not-so-legitimate causes
5:00 Software design error
5:35 Hardware
6:00 Malware

❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best
❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1

More Ask Leo!
☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered
☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter.
☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo!
☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-... for even more!

#askleo #slow #computer