DavidR
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Yes the old three finger salute Ctrl+Alt+Del combo to access the Task Manager at least lets you know what is going on and that the system hasn’t stalled/locked up. But if I remember rightly my MBAM Premium service (seen in task manager) might well have been running and using a lot of CPU time, I closed that just to help a little.
I have never had the black screen on my XP systems (only on my weak assed win7 netbook), plenty of grunt (RAM and CPU) on my XP system.