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Hi All,
I have an issue with windows 8.1 of which I would like someone to shed some light on for me.
The issue I am having is that every so often since upgrading 8.1 last night it keeps locking up on me for no apparent reason resulting in a a restart by the reset switch, and this never happened with windows 8 but it is annoying how 8.1 is now doing it.
Can anyone help? as I am seriously debating downgrading from windows 8.1 back to 8 as I don't want a system that locks up on me and is unstable all the time due to using my computer to do coursework for college and can't afford to lose any work that has not been saved.
SPECS:
MSI E350DM-E33
AMD E350 X2 @ 1.6Ghz
8GB DDR3
1TB HDD
ATI HD RADEON 6310
Yours Sincerely,
Shane
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since I've done that trick I found the system has been running great. I'll repeat it here and then try to scatter it into other replies. People should be made aware of this trick. Go into Task Manager. Right click on Windows Explorer. Click "restart"... then restart your PC... the PC will take awhile to reboot... the Windows system must be "reinstalling" or something.... this reset everything very well, for me....
It is odd that you couldn't run dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealthhere is a link to the scanner http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx If it doesn't work you can search Bing for Microsoft security scanner
Did it give you an error? Maybe it was typed in wrong or you weren't running command prompt as admin. You can copy from here and right click then select paste in the command prompt.
Does dism /online cleanup-image /checkhealth or dism /online cleanup-image /scanhealth run.
One of those will scan the computer for issues and report back if there is anything to fix. The other will the registry and other places to see if Windows set flags which is just its way of marking that there is an issue that needs repaired.
None will try and fix anything but they should run.
Hi All,
I have been facing this issue for quite some time, and I feel I've been cheated by Windows by giving me a substandard product in collusion with Sony VAIO. I have other important things in life beyond scrambling posts on some random forum for solutions of a problem which should have never happened in the first place, especially in the era of iOS and Linux being prevalent more than ever
Windows can at least salvage its reputation by recognizing this defect and fixing it ASAP through some convenient "update"
I'm listing down the different Warning messages chronologically I got in event log for applications, just so that if Windows feels like finding a solution to this mess, they could be rest assured that the customers are more eager to arrive at the solution
2. Unrecognized argument:
3.
Intel(R) System Behavior Tracker Collector Service.
Copyright (C) 2013, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Version 3.2.0.1 usage:
SBTService [/help|/uninstall|/savecsv {files...} OR
SBTService /install /service {Args...} OR
SBTService /standalone] {Args...}]
Args =
/directory=name
/nsamples=number
/dllinterval=number
/procinterval=number
counter=ctrname[:interval]
verbose[=level]
/expandcounter=ctrname[:interval]
/sstates
/nosstates
Thank you for your empathy!
Bhumit
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Hey, mine does the same thing, and I found it to happen whenever there was a windows defender update through windows update. The way I got around it was to change windows update from automatic to ask me before downloading or installing. Now, I have to manually check for udpates every time I use my computer, but the freezing stopped.
