I have some strong memories of paging death on Windows XP, on spinning rust. I recall taking some minutes to recover: Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait for secure authentic

I have some strong memories of paging death on Windows XP, on spinning rust. I recall taking some minutes to recover: Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait for secure authentication screen; hit shortcut for Task Manager and wait for it to start and come to the foreground; navigate to offending process and kill it, with blind keystrokes. The mouse cursor did move smoothly throughout, though, as I recall.