08-10-2016, 04:00 AM
(08-10-2016, 12:34 AM)Segolia Wrote:(08-09-2016, 09:10 PM)Shaadaris Wrote: No error code. No error screen. It just stops responding randomly and restarts automatically a few seconds later.
Also it hasn't happened again yet. I finally managed to get Windows Update working and installed a bunch of updates so maybe that's fixed it.
Skype wouldn't launch again...
Managed to get it working again... Somehow...
And now I tried to launch an MMO and it started launching then vanished.
...And now it's working fine.
SOMETHING is clearly wrong with my laptop but I don't know what.
This is maddening.
If you really wanna work out what's up do a process trace of windows explorer. I think microsoft even provides diagnostic tools for doing that kind of thing if you look around their dev network.
This kind of thing
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor.aspx
I thought my Explorer problems had ceased but it randomly crashed again earlier...
Did system cleaning.
Full system virus, malware, rootkit, and spyware scans turned up nothing.
Installed a backlog of updates now that I managed to get Windows Update to work again.
Checked for any hardware failures, all is good.
And now I'm running that process monitor... Only problem is I don't know what causes the crashes meaning I can't predict when or even if they'll happen, meaning I have to leave this thing open. Well, that and I have no idea how to read what this thing is outputting, though I have managed to get it to only display Windows Explorer.
Only thing I can think of is drivers but those haven't changed in probably a month at least and this problem only started yesterday...
3 times at random yesterday, once at random today (so far, and it's been running for a good 8 hours), and seemingly no recurring circumstances surrounding the crash/restart.
Edit: The amount of memory Procmon is using up is slowly but steadily increasing. I do hope it'll regulate itself before it becomes too high.
UPDATE:
Steam also won't start now unless I put it in Windows XP SP2 Compatability Mode.
I'm beginning to suspect my finally getting Windows Update to work may have caused more problems than it helped...