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Windows 10: Find out the exact reason for an unresponsive application
I am recently facing randomly unresponsive applications. I would like to exactly pinpoint / debug the reason that causes the application to hang.
CPU utilization is low, memory usage is normal. So I ...
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How can I debug Binary batch file?
I have a .bat file in binary format.
But I don't know its functioning.
How can I view the content in detail or debug the binary .bat file, or convert it to exe file?
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How to make yt-dlp JSON data not return null when a YouTube video is in "upcoming" mode?
The following command works for me (meaning it returns JSON data for the video):
yt-dlp.exe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0ZtmBlL-s --skip-download --dump-single-json --no-check-certificate --...
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Corrupt file system after a program crashing
I setup Windows 10 to generate full dumps for my MyUniquelyNamedApp.exe by importing the following file in RegistryEditor:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\...
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Debugging a TCP client/server pair of applications on Windows?
I have a server application in .NET 6/VS2022 which creates a TCP listener, and a python 3 application which creates a socket to connect to the server application.
Rather than hopping back and forth ...
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Having a proxy machine with Windows KDNET kernel debugging?
I'm using KDNET to debug a Windows kernel driver on a second laptop via Ethernet cable. It works by directly plugging the Ethernet cable from the host to the target laptop. The process is described in ...
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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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How to find out what is causing DokuWiki to be unable to save after edit?
This is happening only with one single page, even when only adding/removing a single character. All other pages can be edited & saved.
localhost is Apache on Windows, if that matters.
How can I ...
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Running Qt app within WinPE
I'd say this is kind of inbetween both SuperUser and StackOverflow, but I am writing a GUI application using Qt that I would like to run within WinPE. I am well aware that WinPE is a very limited ...
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How do I make a program I've previously opened have a cold run when my laptop has Intel Optane turned on?
The first time I open a program on windows it is slow to load then if I close it and open it again, it's fast to load. This suggests that windows is caching the frequently and recently used programs ...
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How to prevent most disk writes before you trigger a "CrashOnCtrlScroll" crash
You've just enabled a useful developer feature named CrashOnCtrlScroll. You've enabled it on your primary machine, which you use every day. Not on a spare PC, and not on a virtual machine.
For ...
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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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Very high CPU usage by explorer.exe constantly (something to do with Windows.Storage.Search.dll)
The problem started a few days ago and now it gets high to sometimes 12% and some time to 45% CPU usage. It doesn't start immediately but after a little while if you terminate explorer.exe and start ...
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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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windows sound changing randomly
I'm not sure whats going on but recently my windows sound keeps changing even though mixer volume stays the same. For example, i'll be watching youtube videos with normal volume and then click on a ...
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Appcrash popup not showing?
So i have 2 almost identical machines.
Both on Win7 64bit, but one has a quadro M4000 and the other a p4000 and different motherboards and that's about the only differences.
I am trying to check CDB ...
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Can I see what happens behind the Windows (Dell, in that case) boot logo?
Since something(TM) happened with my laptop (Dell Latitude E6440) yesterday (I suspect a Windows Update, but who knows), my Windows 10 Pro installation (17134.1, if that matters) does not boot any ...
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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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How to install USB debug cable driver in WinDbg for Windows kernel debugging?
As per Microsoft's USB debug page, you must launch WinDbg in an elevated process in order to install the USB driver.
Having done that, I still receive this error message:
Failed to copy USB device ...
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How to ID a bad explorer extension without disabling it?
I have a Windows 7 Enterprise computer that within the last few months when it resumes from sleep or hibernate it slows down drastically for a minute or two before becoming responsive. Typing in my ...
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What is the Win 10 Event ID for when a crash dump is created?
What is the Win 10 Event ID for when a crash dump (not the BSOD kind) is created?
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How to analyze slow program in some computers but not others
I've generated an exe file, using py2exe to pack all the dll needed, and it works flawlessly on my laptop and workstation.
I've tested my program on several computers (same model as my laptop and ...
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Windows 10 slows down in about ~2 minutes after log on
Problem:
~2 minutes (seconds after my wallpapers auto change ) after log on, almost everything becomes very very slow. Game like Forza motosport 6 APEX, Resident Evil 7 seems not be affected even in ...
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Keeping track of service changes on Windows?
Applications often add new services to Windows, some of which start automatically even though they are unnecessary and sometimes interfere with other programs for no good reason.
Is there any way to ...
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How to reinstall .NET Framework 4/4.6 on Windows 10?
If .NET Framework is broken or anything they let you download their installer (offline/web) but it doesn't work, you just bounce back a message that current or later version is already installed and ...
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Windows 10; crash after few minutes after startup; restarts and never crashes again until a power off
I turn on my computer. Windows 10 boots up and the desktop appears. I login and get to do my work. After a few minutes, the computer restarts by itself suddenly (no BSOD). Windows boots up and I get ...
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Chome Windows switching/flashing nonstop after unhibernation
Earlier on I hibernated the computer when Chrome browser was running.
Now when I start-up the computer, the windows of Chrome are "flashing" nonstop. Damn Microsoft Windows. See this 10 second video ...
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Is just me or we are in much extents, powerless when debugging/diagnosing Windows? [closed]
Is there a vast logging system? Like what we see in /var/log on Linux? Is there some place where I can search for "error IDs" or things like this and somewhere that documents so I can study it?
Many ...
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Purpose of FXSAPIDebugLogFile.txt in Windows 7 temp folder?
Many Windows 7 systems have the file FXSAPIDebugLogFile.txt in a temp folder.
The file cannot easily be deleted while Windows is running. When trying to delete the file using standard procedures, ...
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Windows 8.1 mouse-clicks do not work on one particular user
I was logged onto User1. I put my laptop from [cf.] high-power mode to low-power mode, WinL, and stuffed it into my bag.
Few hours later I typed in the password and resumed User1, and after lagging ...
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windows server 2012 network socket debugging (winsock / netsh) - debugging tools
I would like to monitor and debug the way an application (FileZilla) is accessing the tcp/ip stack (socket assignments and related operations).
The application is installed on a windows server 2012 ...
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Windows 8.1 Files missing after transferring to a newly created folder and pressing Ctrl+Z
I had a few video files in a folder. I wanted to transfer the videos into a new folder, so I created a new folder just before I made the transfer.
I selected all of the videos and dragged them to the ...
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How to make Windows 10 BSOD show more details like older versions of Windows
I would like to know if there's any way to make Windows 10 show more details when crashing like Windows 7 did. In Windows 10, the Blue Screen of Death:
hides the parameters of the kernel panic:
The ...
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FTP connection error with one service provider
I’ve had FTP access to a number of websites for some years using Dreamweaver on a Vista PC with Norton 360.
I’ve just changed to a Windows 10 PC with Norton 360 and transfer the Dreamweaver ...
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Something is closing Chrome
On my machine, every time I open Chrome, it opens for about 2 seconds then closes. It doesn't become unresponsive, or come up with the "Woah Chrome has Crashed" message, it simply closes, as if ...
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What could cause an error in Windows 7 debugger tools installation?
My computer, a Windows 7 Dell laptop, has been suffering sudden restarts every so often these days. It's most commonly seen through a hesitation to re-connect to wifi after being asleep for a long ...
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Windows 10 - Most of taskbar completely stopped working
I've had W10 running on my laptop now for quite a while, and haven't had problems as of yet.
This morning I turned on my laptop, and figured out that the start menu, search, battery, wifi, sound, ...
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Set IIS to run with environment variable
I'm trying to run IIS with the COMPLUS_ZapDisable environment variable set to 1. Per this link (which shows how to do it for regular exes), I hope this will allow me to load non-optimized versions of ...
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How to find what file in winsxs is generating a crash?
I have a program that is generating a msvcr80.dll error and crashing. I would like to find out what is happening, so I could find if the program is using the wrong version of that file. Is there a ...
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How can I create a memory dump of a production system without affecting performance?
I am trying to analyze a hard-to-track memory leak problem on a production IIS web server running an ASP.NET application. To that end I am trying to create a dump file of the memory to analyze it ...
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How do I remove these "autofocus" selection borders from the Windows 8.1/8 tile screen?
Good evening, everyone.
I've just recently started to notice some unintended-enabled borders around my Windows 8 machine. Here are some screenshots:
In the above photos, you will notice that there ...
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How to start QEMU on Windows with monitor enabled?
I've downloaded the latest 64-bit version of QEMU for Windows and it installed fine. However, I now have problems switching to Monitor mode when trying my code. The documentation says Ctrl-Alt-[1, 2, ...
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List all files and regkeys opened by a program?
On Windows, I have a currently installed application. The setup utility has since disappeared but we'd like to 'install' the program on another machine. It is quite a well-contained piece of software ...
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How do I interpret the corrupted file information produced by SFC?
Running a scan with the SFC (system file checker) produces entries in the CBS.log file.
sfc /scannow
Microsoft recommends running the findstr (find string) command with the c switch which searches ...
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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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Debug the cause of a bluescreen in windows [duplicate]
I get infrequently a bluescreen on my Windows 7. I would like to know, how i should start debugging this.
How can I make the bluescreen last, so i can read the error mesages?
How are these messages ...
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Issue using Flash Debug Player in VM Windows Vista instance on OSX Lab machine
I have a MacMini running Lion that our developers use for testing. It has three different versions of Windows installed as Virtual Machines on it. I have been trying to install the Flash Debug Player ...
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How to identify (remove) the source of popup messagebox at Windows XP boot?
A computer of one of my users during the boot of its Windows XP SP3 is insistingly showing a messagebox with different illegible symbols in body and title é requiring to press OK
If to leave this ...
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What is the proper way of debugging a slow Windows installation?
You know the drill - you've been asked to check why your cousin's computer is running slow.
I was right there yesterday. Being a Mac user since 2007 I haven't really dug deep in Windows internals in ...
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Perfmon-type app with Always on Top feature
Does anyone know of a perfmon-type app, with nifty features, that can be selected with Always on Top? I would like to view selected counters but need the window to be always visible, would help with ...
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