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Finding useful crash-information in Windows 8 Consumer Preview
I'm currently diving into C# and wanted to play around with the new Metro-styled-applications introduced with Windows 8, so I updated my Windows 7 to Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
The problem I'm ...
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Mac: window manager frozen, have ssh access
I have a Mac which regularly runs into a problem. The user interface stops reponding, showing a "frozen" user interface. The mouse is still moving but clicking does not trigger anything. This happens ...
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Debugging methods for Windows XP hangups
I experience occasional 'freezes' on my desktop machine (Windows XP SP3). I've tried the normal debugging methods I know (watching Process Explorer, running ProcMon (hard to get a good trace because ...
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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 the cause of infrequent freezes of my iMac?
I have an iMac that freezes up on me irregularly. Sometimes I can work for two weeks and everything is fine. Other times I experience 3 or more freezes a day. On average my iMac (bought in June 2010) ...
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ADB-like thing for Windows 10?
My actual aim is to find out what causes freezes occurring on a HP ProBook 450 G3 about once in a week (no reaction to any keystrokes except power button; however there is obvious activity, and the ...
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How to find the culprit that freeze windows 10 when task manager is also frozen (till windows unfreezes)?
When windows 10 freezes, task manager also freeze until windows become responsive.
Since the task manager opens only when the problem is gone, I can't count on it to find what freezes the computer. ...
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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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What to do when "CrashOnCtrlScroll" doesn't seem to work
You've tried to enable a useful developer feature named CrashOnCtrlScroll.
You then tried to trigger a crash. Unfortunately, no crash happened.
What can you try now?
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Dragging a PDF file to a folder causes a hard freeze. How to debug? Causes?
When I drag some PDF file to some folder it causes my computer to have a hard freeze,
this even disallows me to use CrashOnCtrlScroll to generate a BSOD to see where it hung...
As my HDD & MEM ...
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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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Programs to pinpoint why laptop is freezing
My laptop randomly freezes, especially during internet browsing and tab closing (all main browsers). I'm not sure what is causing this. At first I thought it might be overheating, but it sometimes ...
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Software/Ways to help computer run at optimal speed? [closed]
I have gathered a lot of information already on many different issues-- mainly through websites like these where people seek answers regarding troubleshooting with computers/components. So I figured i'...
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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 ...