Windows 10 Strange Issues

scaredofdebt

Hi,

I've had Windows 10 Pro for a few months now and recently have noticed some weird issues.

The computer partially locks up every now and then, it generally tends to affect the browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Edge all the same) but if I go into task manager and close something down (it doesn't seem to matter what I close down, obviously I am careful not to close anything important) then everything goes back to normal.

Also the browsers seem to randomly launch new tabs when I am moused over a tab, sometimes it randomly closes tabs.

I've run a virus scan, nothing, malware scan, nothing, windows updates, it is fully up to date.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

David

pbartlett

When you go to Task Manager, and before you close anything down, what is your memory utilisation?

Also, what have you set your paging file to? If 'system managed' then that is OK, but if to a fixed size you could try increasing it.

forgotmyname

Getting Firefox opening new windows at odd moments. Sometimes I wonder if i had hit the CTRL key instead of shift

but the other day I was typing into a google search all in lower case and another Firefox window opened. Only started

after the Windows update a couple of weeks back.

scaredofdebt

pbartlett said:

When you go to Task Manager, and before you close anything down, what is your memory utilisation?

Also, what have you set your paging file to? If 'system managed' then that is OK, but if to a fixed size you could try increasing it.

Where do I find that?  I can see the memory usage for Firefox is a rather chunky 2.5 Gb, I've got 16 Gb RAM so is that an issue?

The "performance" tab show 7.3 Gb memory used out of 15.9 Gb

Is this what you mean about system managed?

https://ibb.co/hfSCGQt

[Deleted User]

What's your hardware - is it new old etc? Spinning hard disk or SSD?

Your symptoms have some of the classic signs of spinning hard disk have problems reading bad sectors causing applications to hang whilst it re-tries reading them.

Random tab opens / close when mouse over - is there a button stuck / dodgy on the keyboard or mouse?

pbartlett

yes that is what I meant. Your symptoms were a classic 'running out of memory' problem

if you have 16gb of memory it is unlikely to be that though.

Laz123

It's worth running a sfc. It only takes a few minutes and sometimes even an update can knock a system file out of place.

scaredofdebt

Thanks, the disc check didn't return any issues.

It's a newish PC, 1TB SSD.

Mouse/keyboard seem fine, the issue is very intermittent, I can be using the PC fine for an hour or so before any problems begin.

Laz123

Did you run a disc check or a system file check?

scaredofdebt

Sorry for not updating this but it turned out it was the mouse in the end and I wanted to give it a few days to ensure the issue had definitely gone with it being so intermittent.

I did consider that but the fact that doing an "end task" seemed to fix it foxed me somewhat, so thanks to those who suggested that.

snae

Whilst the issue was solved, for future reference, when trouble shooting one should run Task Manager as an administrator as otherwise certain system and administrator processes will not show up.

I always have a Powershell console open, which makes it easier to manage processes.