Yesterday when I was on this site, suddenly the computer told me that Firefox had stopped responding and the screen got pale but didn't lose the image of the site. That much paler screen had happened before, with the same non-responses to mouse and keyboard, but those times (maybe 3) after I unplugged the machine and turned it back on everything seemed normal.
But yesterday it got worse; nothing would work at all, and I had to unplug the computer to turn it off. I tried several times to plug it in and turn it back on; it would load up OK and let me enter my password, but then at my desktop it'd accept no mouse clicks or keyboard strokes. I tried Safe Mode and the Restore utility, I couldn't open any program nor even open Windows Explorer. Restore couldn't find something it needed and failed. I tried everything I could think of to get things going again, but it was to no avail, so I was relegated to using my laptop.
I shut the desktop machine down for the night.
This morning it loaded up slowly, but I could at least run checks for malware, spyware, and viruses, all of which were negative. At one time this morning I clicked to go online and after about 10 minutes I got a message from Firefox saying something like, "Well this is embarrassing. Firefox cannot..." find something, but I didn't write it down. I have not upgraded to the latest version of Firefox.
Now it seems to be running like before yesterday's mysterious happenings.
Can anyone tell me what happened?
I really don't need these headaches.
EDIT: OH! BTW! This morning the speed test showed: Ping, 28; Download speed, 26.30; Upload speed 3.80.