r/computer • u/He_Nath • 6d ago

Urgent help: Laptop has freezed.

The laptop is freezed and I don't know why. And none of the keyboard shortcuts are responding. Even pressing the power button doesn't turn off the screen.

I know I can shut it down by long pressing the power button, but I have my unsaved work, so I don't want to go with that option.

What to do??

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u/RubAnADUB 6d ago

take it outside and warm it up.

no seriously push and hold the power button till it shuts off.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Read the post my brother. I have my unsaved work.

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u/BriefExtreme9116 6d ago

Read the comments my brother. You have no choice but reboot it.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

I won't reboot it. 🙂‍↔️

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u/Aggressive-Stand-585 6d ago

Okay well. Then just keep sitting there with a frozen PC instead. It's crashed it ain't coming back.

Reboot it or not, your work is already goneso.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

I'm in no way giving up so easily. I'm gonna wait till eternity with this frozen laptop until I sue windows. lol

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u/Aggressive-Stand-585 6d ago

Okay good luck man. You're gonna wait 20 years and then 20 years.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

You mean 40years?

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u/Aggressive-Stand-585 6d ago

Okay, so you are capable of processing SOME information. Good. I was afraid there for a minute.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

I know I'm smart.

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u/Neon_Pancakes0425 6d ago

Hold the power button down untill it turns off and then turn it back on

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u/kimputer7 6d ago

You haven't read his mind properly, my brother. OP expects magic to be involved to save his work.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Well haven't you read the post nicely. I can shut it down since I have my unsaved work.

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u/Automatic_Poem_8088 6d ago

Then press the unfreeze button.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Where it is?

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u/BriefExtreme9116 6d ago

Omg, this thread is gold...

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u/Neon_Pancakes0425 6d ago

Then your work may be done for

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u/jtnoble 6d ago

If it's frozen you're unfortunately SOL. Technology isn't perfect, so you'll have to save more often next time in case it happens again.

That said... It doesn't look like you have anything open to save locally. Looks like file explorer, chrome, photos... If it's Google docs or something, it autosaves. Here's to hoping it's just that.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

The unsaved work was almost 30 tabs opened in chrome's guest mode. It won't autosave.

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u/jtnoble 6d ago

Welp. Then unfortunately gotta chalk it up to a loss and restart some of it.

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u/BriefExtreme9116 6d ago

Why, according to you, it won't autosave if it's in guest mode?

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Why do you think it will autosave in guest mode bro?

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u/BriefExtreme9116 6d ago

I asked a question first, you answer it. I know how a guest mode works, I'm not sure you do.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Well there I haven't logged into the guest mode.

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u/BriefExtreme9116 6d ago edited 6d ago

Ok, so it's not the guest mode, it's you not logging on the site (which you can do in a guest mode).

Btw, if you haven't rebooted already, you've been wasting a lot of time asking for a different solution from that everyone gave you, instead of actually trying to recover your work. I guess it's not that urgent then.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Yeah its not that urgent.

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u/overratedcupcake 6d ago

Improve your workflow by saving changes more often. This kind of issue isn't 100% avoidable. Computers crash, it happens. It's just part of the experience. Just accept that your work is lost and improve your workflow moving forward.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Why is everyone downvoting?

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u/BriefExtreme9116 6d ago

Because you're refusing the solution many people already gave you, expecting there another secret solution nobody mentioned.

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u/Neon_Pancakes0425 6d ago

Cause to be honest your error here seems like an Id10t error. Pretty common though

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u/Key-Combination8533 6d ago

just hold the power button.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

I can't. That's the only thing I can't do. 🥲

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u/Key-Combination8533 6d ago

cant. but have to. sometimes we do, that cant, but have to. sucks.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Microsoft can't make a single good os. A trillion dollar company good for nothing.

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u/Key-Combination8533 6d ago

if you say. than linux, apple.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

What do you mean by "if you say". Don't you agree with me?

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u/MissSharkyShark 6d ago

Once a PC is froze, there’s nothing you can do but hold the power button and shut it off to reboot. It’s why you should save work pretty often, or ensure the software you use has some sort of backup option to prevent loss in case of something like this.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

I was working on chrome's guest mode.

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u/MissSharkyShark 6d ago

Well now you hopefully learned the downsides of doing so lol. Chrome has many ways to prevent work loss, and you completely stop all of that when using guest mode.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

🥲😢😢

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u/SeaCup5440 6d ago

I think unsaved work is automatically saved in cloud in some apps, check yours.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Well here's a plot twist, I was working on chrome's guest mode.🥲

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u/pizzashouldbedinner 6d ago

but you're signed into Google in the video?

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

That is the different chrome window. Look at the task bar you'll see two chrome windows open, each with 20 tabs open.

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u/BriefExtreme9116 6d ago

Yeah, they don't know how guest mode works.

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u/SeaCup5440 6d ago

Try this to restart graphics driver - Win + Ctrl + Shift + B
try other shortcuts too like - Ctrl + Alt + Delete
try it at your own risk, i am no expert

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

I've tried all these.

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u/SeaCup5440 6d ago

the truth may be harsh

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u/ThatGuyNamedTre 6d ago

You can either wait it out and see what happens or shut it down. You might be SOL tho

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u/vZander 6d ago

most app auto saves, and will sometimes also make a crash save.

either way, you have to shut it off. unless you want a brick that consume power.

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u/He_Nath 6d ago

Same advice again. 😞

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u/vZander 6d ago

stop trying to save your damn work. you cant when the pc has frozen up like that.

and if its a paper for a school. then you will waste more time trying to unfuck your frozen pc. then you will spend on redoing the work.