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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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What causes "host process for windows services stopped working and was closed"?
When computer (32-bit Windows Vista 32-bit 6.0 Home Premium SP 2) randomly has a "Host Process for Windows Services stopped working and was closed" error:
This popup message simply occur out of ...
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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