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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Time to boot into Ubuntu and use that while I do some research about what Win10's problem might be. As a rule, weird issues I've seen in Windows tend to be video related, even if video wouldn't seem to be involved. Next step might be to pull the video card and revert to built-in Intel graphics to see if it helps.
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And (crossing appendages), it
may just be I fixed things.
Poking around on line returned a couple of suggestions. One was disabling hybrid shutdown, which you do from power management. Since this is an always on desktop plugged into an outlet, power saving is not a concern, and attempts to do it are pointless. That let me shutdown, and restart, which required power cycles the past day or so.
The other was changing Win10's disk properties. I boot from a Crucial SSD. It appears I needed to go into Device Manager, select the drive under Disk Drives, select Properties, and turn
off Windows write-cache buffer flushing.
That seems to have fixed the application hangs that were requiring a power cycle.
I'm up under Win10 at the moment, in Firefox, and tried a couple of other things, including re-installing a couple of things I'd removed as potential trouble sources. Thus far, no issues.
That my woes were SSD related is not really a surprise. One thing I did on Win7 was turn
off automatic defrag of the SSD (which can reduce drive life and is unnecessary on an SSD in any case.) That some standard Windows 10 disk handling should be disabled on an SSD makes sense.
If that actually
fixes my problems, I'm a happy camper.
(And while I was in Ubuntu, I took the opportunity to upgrade to the 16.04 LTS release, so it wasn't exactly a waste of time.
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Dennis