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madagascaradam · 03-07-2016, 01:59 PM

I've been using Calibre on a Windows 7 PC for about 5 or 6 years now and it's a great program, and once the 64-bit version was released, I was always using that. I recently got a new PC and updated to Windows 10 Home 64-bit and installed the latest version of Calibre (a few months ago). However, I've had constant problems of it freezing up during use... sometimes as quick as a few minutes into use, sometimes 20 minutes or so later, but it inevitably freezes every time if I keep using it. There's no one thing that seems to cause it to freeze, nor is there anything that seems to not work.... everything seems to work, especially if I can run it soon after loading Calibre, but if I keep doing different stuff (whether just editing metadata, converting books, or editing ebooks, etc. - from simple to complicated) - it will eventually freeze every time. Sometimes it freezes just when clicking on a different book entry. It doesn't however seem to freeze if left sitting there on its own. Only if I come back to it and click on something or perform some action. And when it freezes, I have to close it manually (force close) through the task manager.

Over the last few months, I've installed several calibre updates hoping one of them would fix the issues I'm having, but so far, nothing has done that. I have the latest update on there now (downloaded and installed two days ago).

I would really love to find a solution to this because I love calibre, I love my e-reader, and I even use calibre for my work (creating and editing ebook documents for a training program we lead, and Calibre is by far the best way for me to do that). So it's really hard to work with such frequent freezes, especially if I'm in the middle of a lot of ebook editing.

Anyone have any idea why this is or what I can do to try to fix this? I've tried everything from running as administrator to various compatibility mode options (everything that would seem to make sense) and nothing seems to fix it. I can't tell that any other programs might be interfering with it because nothing else gives any sort of alerts and nothing else crashes.

My windows version is 1511 OS Build 10586.63 . My laptop is an MSI GS70 2QD. I installed all its Windows 10 drivers and everything else seems to work, but it's got a lot of proprietary software that runs regularly (one for sound, a graphics driver that knows when to switch from chipset graphics to dedicated graphics - basically only on games, a keyboard driver, special network driver - all this special stuff for all the special hardware) and I have Avira installed. Other than that, I don't really allow any startup programs, so I don't know what else could be interfering.

Any thoughts for helping me narrow down and fix the problem would be great! If you need any other system info or something like that, let me know.

03-07-2016, 01:59 PM	#1
madagascaradam Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: Kobo H2O Edition 2	Calibre constantly freezing in Windows 10 I've been using Calibre on a Windows 7 PC for about 5 or 6 years now and it's a great program, and once the 64-bit version was released, I was always using that. I recently got a new PC and updated to Windows 10 Home 64-bit and installed the latest version of Calibre (a few months ago). However, I've had constant problems of it freezing up during use... sometimes as quick as a few minutes into use, sometimes 20 minutes or so later, but it inevitably freezes every time if I keep using it. There's no one thing that seems to cause it to freeze, nor is there anything that seems to not work.... everything seems to work, especially if I can run it soon after loading Calibre, but if I keep doing different stuff (whether just editing metadata, converting books, or editing ebooks, etc. - from simple to complicated) - it will eventually freeze every time. Sometimes it freezes just when clicking on a different book entry. It doesn't however seem to freeze if left sitting there on its own. Only if I come back to it and click on something or perform some action. And when it freezes, I have to close it manually (force close) through the task manager. Over the last few months, I've installed several calibre updates hoping one of them would fix the issues I'm having, but so far, nothing has done that. I have the latest update on there now (downloaded and installed two days ago). I would really love to find a solution to this because I love calibre, I love my e-reader, and I even use calibre for my work (creating and editing ebook documents for a training program we lead, and Calibre is by far the best way for me to do that). So it's really hard to work with such frequent freezes, especially if I'm in the middle of a lot of ebook editing. Anyone have any idea why this is or what I can do to try to fix this? I've tried everything from running as administrator to various compatibility mode options (everything that would seem to make sense) and nothing seems to fix it. I can't tell that any other programs might be interfering with it because nothing else gives any sort of alerts and nothing else crashes. My windows version is 1511 OS Build 10586.63 . My laptop is an MSI GS70 2QD. I installed all its Windows 10 drivers and everything else seems to work, but it's got a lot of proprietary software that runs regularly (one for sound, a graphics driver that knows when to switch from chipset graphics to dedicated graphics - basically only on games, a keyboard driver, special network driver - all this special stuff for all the special hardware) and I have Avira installed. Other than that, I don't really allow any startup programs, so I don't know what else could be interfering. Any thoughts for helping me narrow down and fix the problem would be great! If you need any other system info or something like that, let me know.