system lockup

For many Windows 10 users and administrators, Patch Tuesday often brings a blend of critical security updates and, regrettably, the unintended headaches that sometimes accompany sweeping changes to enterprise and personal PCs. The rollout of KB5058379, a mandatory security update for Windows 10...

Most Windows users are familiar with the regular reboot process, but few are aware of a little-known "Emergency Restart" method embedded in Windows 11. Despite its longevity—sources trace its roots as far back as Windows XP—this option remains obscure even for experienced users. Its rediscovery...

It’s a universal truth—give someone access to the Windows Settings app, and suddenly your network environment is less a digital utopia and more a Wild West saloon with keyboard cowboys firing off random configurations. Whether it’s a curious intern, a well-meaning spouse, or that legendary...

It was one of those weekends when IT administrators around the world were either catching up on much-needed rest or, if superstition holds any currency, knocking on wood in hope that nothing out-of-the-ordinary would grace their outboxes come Monday. Alas, dear reader, tranquility was not on the...

Windows Hello, Microsoft's biometric authentication system, has recently encountered a significant glitch in Windows 11, leaving users unable to access their devices through facial recognition, fingerprint scanning, or PIN entry. This issue has sparked widespread frustration and raised concerns...

I am just about finished with a new Windows Server 2022 Standard build using an ASUS P12R-E/10G-2T motherboard. It has a provision to add a TPM module, however, it works fine without it aside from an Event Log error at every startup. Wondering what the thoughts are regarding adding the TPM...

Hi, My system boots up fine until I get to the pretty login picture. I can either touch the mouse or hit any key and the little box for my login password always appeared until yesterday. Now I have to wait about 45 to 50 seconds before the system reacts correctly to my request to enter my...

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 PP29L running Windows Vista. The system freezes while booting from the HDD. During a boot into safe mode the system locks up at Loaded: \Windows\system 32\drivers\crcdisk.sys I have been trying to boot from a Windows Vista install disk, but it freezes as well. It...

Have an interesting issue with explorer.exe locking up when I try to close photo viewer within several minutes, but only if I open the picture file from the desktop. Opening photos from within a folder anywhere else on the system it opens and closes fine (no need to wait). If I let it sit for...

ok I loaded windows 10 and all was working fine then I received an update and every time I want to play a game or surf the internet the computer locks up and the only way to recover is to hit the reset button. this got so bad that I fully removed windows 10 and reinstalled windows 8 to get rid...

New, don't even have the emails entered. Forgot password and with Win8 unable to go anywhere to fix it. It tells me to go and change password but cannot bring up any screens. Help

my laptop is not booting properly. while installing window it shows it is lock first unlock it. and in diskpart there is only one drive ( disk 1) which has 22gb. but my laptop has 2 drive disk 0 which has the main window. but its not showing there.

well here it is i recently got a few viruses on my windos 7 and well my anti virus wouldnt get rid of them 9 to be exact so i figured i would formate my windows compleately with the disk i have for instaling it well heres what happond so i put the disk in and loaded it up then promply clicked...

OK, new to the site, but I'm asking for help, as I have an annoying problem - I installed Windows 8 on Jan 28 and finally got my computer back to *just* the way I like it about a week later. Since then, I have had random freezes/reboots (no BSOD) every couple of hours. The screen will completely...

I have a serious memory leak in nonpaged pool, which happen to be Irp packets. Here is the whole story. The system is Win7 Ultimate x64 which I primarily use to host some VirtualBox VMs. Around beginning of May I noticed that the box started to lock up and it was rock solid for almost a year...

I built a new system two months ago and did all the stress test and memtest etc. however, over the past 48 hours my system has started to lock up, the mouse would still move and I can interact with open windows for a few seconds before they also start to freeze up. After 1-2 minutes all open...

Timeout causes graphics card to fail. Occasionally, when on a web page with pictures/video/flash, the screen will "freeze" and have some random colored pixels appear or sometimes it will just go black. Sometimes when this happens the whole system will remain locked. Other times it will...

I'm encountering odd problems while trying to rebuild my Windows 7 desktop PC. Background: I purchased my desktop PC (a Dell Studio XPS 435 MT, with Radeon HD4670 and dual monitors) about three years ago. It came with Windows Vista. Soon after I received this PC, I formatted the system...

I've got 4 hard disks (1 system, 3 storage) that are varying degrees of full from 25%-85%. Occasionally, my system will just bog down and I can hear what sounds like a hard drive winding up or something and my system locks up for maybe 5 seconds and then I can use it again. This seems to happen...

Hi there I hope someone knows this but is there a good software out there that helps you set policy and restrictions on your PC? Like Novell but less expensive and for your desktop. I have found a couple but it does not have things like disallowing someone to use f8 or anything like it to by...