[petermg]

Thank you all for your replies. I have tried most of these applications with the exception of Oxios closeapps and memmaid. I will report back with results, but I do not think this will help if these apps only help with freeing up ram, since I have noticed this happen even when I have enough ram free. It's weird because it's random, sometimes it happens, other times it does not.... when it happens, I can't launch the process manager/ task manager.. it just sits there. Very peculiar.