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Freezing PC on W10


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Since I have been on W10 most things have been working fine. I have had a few episodes of the computer freezing, something I haven't seen for years. It happened twice so far today.

Any suggestions as to possible causes and remedies?

If it continues I am seriously thinking of reverting to W7

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Was it completely frozen, or just locked up due to a cpu hogging task. I have had windows problem reporting ans and amazon media player task simultaneously start looping, so used CTRL-ALT-Del to bring up task manager and cancel them.

The two best times to go fishing are when it's raining and when it's not

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OK, it seems to be linked to particular websites. When it froze this morning I was on a carp fishing website so to try it out I closed down everything else, went onto the website and on exactly the same page the computer froze again.

Any suggestions other than avoid carp fishing websites?

Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.

 

 

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

 

 

 

http://www.safetypublishing.co.uk/
http://www.safetypublishing.ie/

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Are you using Edge or another browser?

If you're using Edge then use IE or chrome instead...a lot of sites don't play well with Edge yet.

If you're using IE or Chrome, do a full setting rest on them and test again.

Also note Java and Flash have new updates for Windows 10 so make sure you've updated them.

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Poor show if a misbehaving user program can take the OS down.

 

Haven't had cause to curse Microsoft for a while, although I may have used some rude words the other night when I realised that the reason my SSD was full was that Windows had reserved a quarter of it for the hibernate feature.

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Hi

I was using Chrome.

What's a full setting rest?

 

Thanks

Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.

 

 

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

 

 

 

http://www.safetypublishing.co.uk/
http://www.safetypublishing.ie/

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Full setting reset....(typing on iPad! Lol)

In chrome:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214?hl=en

 

Also check any plugins you use in chrome, they might have windows 10 updates as well!

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  • 2 weeks later...

Well, I've baled out and gone back to Win 7. It was freezing 3 or 4 times a dy and spending all that time recovering lost work was a pain.

Other than that I quite liked it.

It seems likely that it was some sort of conflict with the drivers for my Radeon GPU so I will wait until they hhave fixed a few more bugs before I try again.

FWIW the rollback to W7 was easy and painless.

Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.

 

 

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

 

 

 

http://www.safetypublishing.co.uk/
http://www.safetypublishing.ie/

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