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Hi all,
I've had an issue with Windows 10 Pro really freezing up and not being responsive after opening up Task Manager. The numbers shown for performance and CPU utilization are not pegged at all.
This is on a Dell T3500 with a SSD OS drive, W3580 cpu, 24GB RAM, and an AMD Radeon Pro WX7100.
The computer is on a Domain with Webroot installed as AV. I usually have Solidworks and a couple of other programs open. I do not have any hardware bottlenecks as far as I can see. I also looked at the Event Viewer, and apart from a couple Group Policy warnings, nothing out of the ordinary, and no system events registered at the time of opening Task Manager.
Thanks for the insights, gents n ladies.
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Though for some setting 'allow' seems to work, it does not for me. I have allow always on for Firefox and other browsers. Webroot seems to be one common denominator. It strikes me that many report having a Dell and an SSD (and Windows 10 xx edition?). I have all too. Would be interesting to see whether those other things are common too. In that case I'll turn to Dell and Webroot support.
Oddly now, this is not fixing it on my laptop. But it did take care of it on my desktop. Hmm.
Did you try "allowing" Chrome and Firefox? That's what fixes it for me. Allowing taskmgr makes no difference.
Oddly now, this is not fixing it on my laptop. But it did take care of it on my desktop. Hmm.
Webroot was definitely the issue for me. Here are the changes I made in the Webroot UI. After this was set, Task Manager played along fine with Windows/Chrome/Firefox.
It would be great if anyone has any contacts at Webroot and could point them to this thread so they could optimize the application to play nicely with the OS instead of the admins having to push out workarounds and fixes for client machines.
I had to "allow" Firefox. Unfortunately, every time there's a Firefox update, Webroot detects it as something different and I have to allow it again. My wife's work laptop has Webroot but making changes to it is administratively blocked out, so having to live with the problem on that one.
Webroot was definitely the issue for me. Here are the changes I made in the Webroot UI. After this was set, Task Manager played along fine with Windows/Chrome/Firefox.
It would be great if anyone has any contacts at Webroot and could point them to this thread so they could optimize the application to play nicely with the OS instead of the admins having to push out workarounds and fixes for client machines.
