Windows crashing after clicking PERFORMANCE tab under Task Manager

Anonymous
2020-05-03T09:19:00+00:00

Hello Windows Community folks

Windows 10 keeps crashing after I click Performance TAB in Task Manager. It crashes the windows going into the infamous Green screen with reason- Windows preview build failed. I have tried several debug options like cmd SFC Scan, DISM.

I have not specifically touched registry keys as I am afraid I will end up breaking something else.

What options do I have? Please suggest.

Thanks

J

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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Anonymous
2020-09-24T10:29:31+00:00

Thanks,

this helped for me,

I changed

NVIDIA System Control > 3D Settings > Global Settings > Preferred GPU

from "NVIDIA high performance processor"

back to "auto select"

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-13T03:22:19+00:00

    Yes, twenty-four of them! The process is quite slow, so I will do this over the weekend. I will post updates here.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-13T12:31:11+00:00

    Similar problem - task manager crashes when selecting the Performance tab. On windows pro 2004, I could not fix it, I tried so many updates not worked. if anyone knows how to fix it, please share it with all of us.

    best regards

    have a nice day.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-13T18:24:50+00:00

    Hello yousif_faiq. Have you tried to update your drivers using driverdoc as explained above? Pls do so, and revert with results.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-13T20:25:36+00:00

    I've been reading this thread since I made my first contribution, trying this and that.  New Realtek drivers didn't help, and I don't trust Driverdoc.  What I eventually did was allow Microsoft Update to update my drivers (I'd disabled automatic driver updates using OOSU10).  That worked!  I noticed during the update process that the drivers installed were for my relatively ancient NVIDIA graphics card and for an unnamed USB device — two in all.  For what it's worth to my fellow troubleshooters, I never had the problem of a blank Startup tab.

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