Opening Task Manager Slows PC to Crawl - Windows 10 Pro 1709

Anonymous
2017-12-11T16:03:07+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2018-04-17T19:39:48+00:00

    Oddly now, this is not fixing it on my laptop. But it did take care of it on my desktop. Hmm.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-04-17T19:48:04+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-04-18T07:41:04+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-04-18T09:16:59+00:00

    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.

    Dell - check

    SSD - check

    Windows 10 - check.

    SSD is a replacement for the orginal SATA. Webroot was initially OK with Win 10 on the SSD. The problem with Task Manager began with the Autumn Creators update.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-04-18T11:27:35+00:00

    I'm using a Lenovo so nope. It's more of a Webroot + Windows 10 issue.

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