Do you have an ani-virus installed? I stopped using Kaspersky a few years back for exactly the same reason. It turned out it was messing with the drivers and causing the crash.
You could always partition your HD and use Ubuntu Linux as a backup for when Windows goes Screwy.
"Your computer is having wirus?".
I suggest a scan with malware bytes too, if you get a chance to install it.
I'm putting this up for reference here as I've been having exactly the problem F_Clowder mentions today. This desktop PC - a Win 10, 8Gb with a fast SSD has been like greased lightning for years. Today, however, at around 4.30 it turned into a pile of poop, for no reason (not installed anything recently) and was incredibly slow - in fact it was unuseable. A dozen or so reboots didn't fix it, which has usually cured things like this in the past.
Anyway, it would boot really quickly (about 10 seconds) to the login prompt, which is normal, I would login and then it would be unuseable. Not slow in comparison to how would you expect an SSD to perform but completely unuseable. Clicking an item on the Desktop and it would be half-an-hour before it even "looked" selected. Opening any app was a complete waste of time.
As this machine is critical for my business I had to find something to fix it and I was just about to reset Win10 back to factory settings from the Recovery Environment (reboot and at the login prompt, select Power > Reset but hold Shift when you press Reset - this will open the Recovery Environment on the next reboot) when I thought I'd have a look at some of the boot options. One of them looked ominous - Disable Early Launch Anti-Malware Protection (for the next reboot).
So I chose that and... boom! Win 10 back up to full speed again. So I've now disabled that permanently which you can do from the instructions here.
Hopefully this might point someone else in the right direction if they have similar problems.
Thank heavens for this thread. It just put an end to an abusive screaming session! I told her exactly what happened and what I'd done to overcome it but not till I got her to read this thread did she grudgingly apologize for the accusations.
This morning Dell sent me an urgent install notice for the BIOS and video drivers. The video drivers installed just fine but the BIOS install locked up after starting the install part. I didn't like the looks of it, figured it might be a ransom virus, nothing worked, F8, CTRL ALT DEL, so I pulled the power supply waited a few minutes and rebooted. Chaos. Finally got it sorted by rebooting twice.
Well, it was bound to happen again. I had a minor update forced upon me a week or two back, completely buggered up the computer. Have basically not been able to use it due to constant freezes. It's been usable in the last two days ... barely.
A thought struck me, how about just bogging the HD so the update can't DL on the sly.
So, as of this morning I get a message saying "Windows needs more space" for some update. Evidently it needs over 5 GBs, I plopped a bunch of videos onto the main HD and it has about 1.5 GB free. I'm going to ignore the pop-up window asking for more space, and see how long I can stave off the stupid updates.
Here's hoping ...
Well, it was bound to happen again. I had a minor update forced upon me a week or two back, completely buggered up the computer. Have basically not been able to use it due to constant freezes. It's been usable in the last two days ... barely.
A thought struck me, how about just bogging the HD so the update can't DL on the sly.
So, as of this morning I get a message saying "Windows needs more space" for some update. Evidently it needs over 5 GBs, I plopped a bunch of videos onto the main HD and it has about 1.5 GB free. I'm going to ignore the pop-up window asking for more space, and see how long I can stave off the stupid updates.
Here's hoping ...
Hey mate! I was wondering what happened to you, so I'm glad its nothing worse.
Have you had a bash with the Disable Early Launch Anti-Malware Protection I mentioned earlier in this thread? Your symptoms sound very similar to what I had so it's worth a shot!
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You could always partition your HD and use Ubuntu Linux as a backup for when Windows goes Screwy.
"Your computer is having wirus?".
I suggest a scan with malware bytes too, if you get a chance to install it.
Anyway, it would boot really quickly (about 10 seconds) to the login prompt, which is normal, I would login and then it would be unuseable. Not slow in comparison to how would you expect an SSD to perform but completely unuseable. Clicking an item on the Desktop and it would be half-an-hour before it even "looked" selected. Opening any app was a complete waste of time.
As this machine is critical for my business I had to find something to fix it and I was just about to reset Win10 back to factory settings from the Recovery Environment (reboot and at the login prompt, select Power > Reset but hold Shift when you press Reset - this will open the Recovery Environment on the next reboot) when I thought I'd have a look at some of the boot options. One of them looked ominous - Disable Early Launch Anti-Malware Protection (for the next reboot).
So I chose that and... boom! Win 10 back up to full speed again. So I've now disabled that permanently which you can do from the instructions here.
Hopefully this might point someone else in the right direction if they have similar problems.
This morning Dell sent me an urgent install notice for the BIOS and video drivers. The video drivers installed just fine but the BIOS install locked up after starting the install part. I didn't like the looks of it, figured it might be a ransom virus, nothing worked, F8, CTRL ALT DEL, so I pulled the power supply waited a few minutes and rebooted. Chaos. Finally got it sorted by rebooting twice.
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A thought struck me, how about just bogging the HD so the update can't DL on the sly.
So, as of this morning I get a message saying "Windows needs more space" for some update. Evidently it needs over 5 GBs, I plopped a bunch of videos onto the main HD and it has about 1.5 GB free. I'm going to ignore the pop-up window asking for more space, and see how long I can stave off the stupid updates.
Here's hoping ...
But in Win10Pro you have more control over updates, from what I understand.
Hey mate! I was wondering what happened to you, so I'm glad its nothing worse.
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