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Windows 11 hanging

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philfromMPC

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Does anyone else have windows 11 hang, especially on some programs, every once in a while. Didn't have this issue with Windows 10
 
I'm not experiencing any odd issues with the latest version of 25H2.

Do you see anything in the event log? There is a special category for "Administrative Events" that filters out most of the fluff and will generally show you the important stuff (including critical system errors).

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If it's a relatively short "hang" and the system recovers, it could be something like a GPU driver crash/reset.
 
Only thing I've noticed lately is that sometimes File Explorer will not allow you to click icons and you have to close out the Window. But this doesn't happen except on my work computer, all of my other machines are fine. It's possible another running program is causing it.

This only started for me maybe a month ago but has happened with 24H2 and after updating to 25H2.
 
philfromMPC said:
Does anyone else have windows 11 hang, especially on some programs, every once in a while. Didn't have this issue with Windows 10
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Basic or entry level windows 10/11 stuff I always RECC people do:

1. Disable system restore
2. set pagefile to like 1512 MB and static. ( same amount for starting and ending)
3. Set optimization for Programs and not back ground tasks
4. go through the registry and services and disable anything your sure you don't use. ( like system restore [ if you disable it] remote access and xbox game stuff)
5. go through task manager and boot menu/start up process and disable anything you don't use.

1-3 are all things done in control panel > system > advanced settings.

Search for guides if you can't figure it out

and 4/5 are riskier but not too bad. If you don't know what services you use and don't use then, DO NOT start disabling things; you will break your OS or won't be able to log in and will have to reformat and reinstall.

There are guides on this forum and many other places for all 1-5. or you can post screen shots of your services GUI and we give generic suggestions.

One thing about the Page file though; If you have A LOT of RAM like 16+ GB's of it you might be able to disable pagefile but its not recommended. I usually set mine to static amount of 1024 MB.
 
StevenJamesBorchard said:
4. go through the registry and services and disable anything your sure you don't use.
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do not recommend this to anyone that doesnt know exactly what they are doing...
do not disable page file, its needed whether you think it is or not, some things wont work right without it. and with todays drive sizes there is no reason to. set it static like you suggest, i usually give it a couple gbs.
 
StevenJamesBorchard said:
Basic or entry level windows 10/11 stuff I always RECC people do:

1. Disable system restore
2. set pagefile to like 1512 MB and static. ( same amount for starting and ending)
3. Set optimization for Programs and not back ground tasks
4. go through the registry and services and disable anything your sure you don't use. ( like system restore [ if you disable it] remote access and xbox game stuff)
5. go through task manager and boot menu/start up process and disable anything you don't use.

1-3 are all things done in control panel > system > advanced settings.

Search for guides if you can't figure it out

and 4/5 are riskier but not too bad. If you don't know what services you use and don't use then, DO NOT start disabling things; you will break your OS or won't be able to log in and will have to reformat and reinstall.

There are guides on this forum and many other places for all 1-5. or you can post screen shots of your services GUI and we give generic suggestions.

One thing about the Page file though; If you have A LOT of RAM like 16+ GB's of it you might be able to disable pagefile but its not recommended. I usually set mine to static amount of 1024 MB.
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Yikes, the only thing I would do here is disable startup programs you don't need. The rest is risky at best.

OP you probably have some sort of corrupted system files. Have you ran sfc /scannow
 
pendragon1 said:
do not recommend this to anyone that doesnt know exactly what they are doing...
do not disable page file, its needed whether you think it is or not, some things wont work right without it. and with todays drive sizes there is no reason to. set it static like you suggest, i usually give it a couple gbs.
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Absolutely!!

Make sure your Data is backed Up and your ready to reformat and reinstall BEFORE doing this.

I've borked a few fresh installs deleting registry entries and disabling Services which at the time seem safe but are not once you do it

and I have a list of ones thats like deleted; " Looks safe to touch, but DON'T!! "

:D
 
I think it's the folding@home running in background. Guess my PC is a step down from what I had before (Windows 10 on HP Z420 Xeon with 32gb RAM). Didn't have any issue before on that pc
 
philfromMPC said:
I think it's the folding@home running in background. Guess my PC is a step down from what I had before (Windows 10 on HP Z420 Xeon with 32gb RAM). Didn't have any issue before on that pc
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If GPU folding try lowering the power to 85-90%. Won’t be much of a hit on ppd. If CPU is folding lower the cores/threads used. This will impact your ppd. If you’re not going for max ppd things should run smoother.
 
philfromMPC said:
I think it's the folding@home running in background. Guess my PC is a step down from what I had before (Windows 10 on HP Z420 Xeon with 32gb RAM). Didn't have any issue before on that pc
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Well grats to him for still Folding!! Also does SETI still exist??

I wonder if OP found solution to this?
 
StevenJamesBorchard said:
Basic or entry level windows 10/11 stuff I always RECC people do:

1. Disable system restore
2. set pagefile to like 1512 MB and static. ( same amount for starting and ending)
3. Set optimization for Programs and not back ground tasks
4. go through the registry and services and disable anything your sure you don't use. ( like system restore [ if you disable it] remote access and xbox game stuff)
5. go through task manager and boot menu/start up process and disable anything you don't use.

1-3 are all things done in control panel > system > advanced settings.

Search for guides if you can't figure it out

and 4/5 are riskier but not too bad. If you don't know what services you use and don't use then, DO NOT start disabling things; you will break your OS or won't be able to log in and will have to reformat and reinstall.

There are guides on this forum and many other places for all 1-5. or you can post screen shots of your services GUI and we give generic suggestions.

One thing about the Page file though; If you have A LOT of RAM like 16+ GB's of it you might be able to disable pagefile but its not recommended. I usually set mine to static amount of 1024 MB.
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As others noted, you do not need to do any of this really, these are not the "Viper XP tweak guide" days. Since like Windows 7 most registry stuff does nothing and on modern hardware the other items will do next to nothing, you can just disable services in services that you know are not needed and even with that, most services running, are often needed or take up literally no resources to sit there mostly idle.

Pagefile has zero reason to be touched these days..

best thing to do is use one of the trusted Windows 10/11 debloat powershell scripts, the ones which remove all the silly apps and Xbox crap and such.
 
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