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Graeme Evans NZ
Ever since my Windows 10 upgraded to version 1903 (on Aug 4), it has suffered from lock-up / pregnant pauses of 20 - 30 seconds, seven to ten times per day.
My workstation has reasonably high specs: a 3.5GHz Xeon processor, 32GB of RAM. and two fast SSDs (500GB & 1 TB).
During the lockups, Task Manager shows Disk usage in excess of 33%, and Resource Monitor shows RuntimeBroker.exe as writing more than 1MB/sec (and no reads). I can sometimes switch between tasks (which allows me to check Task Manager & Resource Monitor if I have them open). But sometimes everything locks up completely, with the cursor displaying as a rotating circle.
It does not seem to matter what application I am using - it occurs out of the blue in Windows Explorer and third party applications alike.
I usually work with more than 15 Explorer windows open, displaying various folders that I frequently access for different things during the day. Quite often, after these pregnant pauses, the sort order of the Explorer windows has been completely trashed (which makes it difficult to quickly find a folder I want to switch into it - I usually finish up closing them all, and then running a script to open all the standard ones again, which gets pretty frustrating several time a day, every day).
What is this instability that seems to have been introduced with version 1903, and how can I fix it?
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My workstation has reasonably high specs: a 3.5GHz Xeon processor, 32GB of RAM. and two fast SSDs (500GB & 1 TB).
During the lockups, Task Manager shows Disk usage in excess of 33%, and Resource Monitor shows RuntimeBroker.exe as writing more than 1MB/sec (and no reads). I can sometimes switch between tasks (which allows me to check Task Manager & Resource Monitor if I have them open). But sometimes everything locks up completely, with the cursor displaying as a rotating circle.
It does not seem to matter what application I am using - it occurs out of the blue in Windows Explorer and third party applications alike.
I usually work with more than 15 Explorer windows open, displaying various folders that I frequently access for different things during the day. Quite often, after these pregnant pauses, the sort order of the Explorer windows has been completely trashed (which makes it difficult to quickly find a folder I want to switch into it - I usually finish up closing them all, and then running a script to open all the standard ones again, which gets pretty frustrating several time a day, every day).
What is this instability that seems to have been introduced with version 1903, and how can I fix it?
Continue reading...
