Windows 10- Locks up "waiting for cache"

Anonymous
2020-04-09T15:54:17+00:00

Window 10 was working very well until recently after upgrading to Windows Edge chrome (or at least the is the only event that I can associated to this issue) I am getting persistent OS stalls or "not responding" that affect all applications when running Edge. Common to see "waiting for cache" in lower left browser window when the the entire system stalls and stops responding. Common to see the cursor hour glass for 30 or more seconds before system and affected applications start to respond normally.

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Anonymous
2020-09-17T21:52:56+00:00

Uninstalled chrome and edge. Using Firefox with zero issues

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-07-18T12:28:03+00:00

    Update from me; I have figured it out.

    Anti Malwarebytes, something I've been using for years was causing my freezing randomly.

    I've uninstalled it, and now everything is perfect. But it leaves the question, **** happened to my installation of it? Not sure if it was an update or what but it's staying off my System for now.

    It's one of the next to no bloat anti-malware solutions around.

    I've been using my system a week straight, continuing to use Google Chrome and I've had zero issues since removal of Anti Malwarebytes.

    It may have been trying to scan every RAM process or file and ran into 360s on itself or something.

    Hope this helps people out there.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-19T00:10:37+00:00

    So it is now July 19 and still no issues on two machines in over one month now since I uninstalled Microsoft Chromium Edge.

    I do run Malwarebytes on both machines as well and have had no issues with it either.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-07-19T00:12:01+00:00

    See my latest reply above.

    It may be possible that it is a combination of Malwarebytes and Chromium Edge that causes the problem.

    I will be interested to see whether anyone experiencing this problem runs Edge without Malwarebytes.

    Also I still do run a combination of Edge and Malwarebytes on my main desktop and have never had a problem.  

    However, this desktop is never trying to sleep / hibernate.  It is either on or shutdown.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-19T17:13:13+00:00

    Happening to myself aswell.

    I have a 9700k, Z390 Meg Ace, NVME 970 Evo Plus as a boot drive.

    Even on a fresh install it occurs.

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