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PC enters a state where it's "sleeping" but cannot wake up

Sometimes, I come back to my computer to see it look like it's sleeping, but I'm unable to wake it up (either with the keyboard/mouse or with the power button). The power light on the front of my ...
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How to debug Windows 7 shutdown-freeze and failure

The actual question is really about "How can I debug" this (see below), but for background a bit more story: I'm running Windows 7 64-bit (fully updated) on a new Dell Precision M3800 SSD, ...
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Windows 10 lockup with no error logs or bluescreen

Symptoms: Display image freezes on last frame No m/k inputs work whatsoever Audio freezes to a square wave sound at whatever pitch was last coming out of the speakers There is seemingly no ...
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Something is blocking and slowing Windows 7 down when I loose the network connection

I've experienced this multiple times on various Windows installations on various work related devices. Sometimes when my laptop looses it's connection to the Intranet, the whole systems seem to hang. ...
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How to fix explorer freezing when accessing usb?

very often my explorer freezes when accessing usb (sometimes I have to restart it, sometimes the not responding goes away in a few seconds) and today was the worst case (might have been cause i was ...
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Simple example of how to capture traces during OOBE with WPR / ADK

I need to capture traces immediately after OOBE to debug an issue. I was pointed to the Windows Performance Recorder tool provided with the Windows ADK. All of the instructions I have seen instruct ...
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How to know which driver or kernel module prevents process to be killed?

Sometimes I have processes which I can't kill. Process Explorer, Task Manager and others say that "Access denied". I was told that this can be because kernel driver has a bug or something. How to ...
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