Thanks for the useful tips Mr thio joe ❤

This project hasn't been updated in about fourteen years... Crazy how time flys!

​@@monad_tcp I have on numerous occasions had my CPU so pegged at 100% that that menu, or even the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen won't come up. Regarding Powershell remoting; I've tried to get that to work, but it looks like I have to create a digital certificate and sign it. Either that or I'm completely missing something.

Ctrl+alt+ end brings up the same screen in Remote desktop for active directories

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True. It might only be useful in a few circumstances but still good to know about. I think it is probably most useful in remote desktop situations.

Yeah, it's either functional or too frozen to even shut it down

​​@@ThioJoe like LogonUI.exe error and cursor frozen when on GPU's MSI mode? Heh

Exactly

Exactly. My computer does this a lot. Not too often, of course, but maybe once every few weeks.

lol, thought I was the only one who noticed that 😂😂

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Some content creators do this on purpose because they know someone will mention it in the comments and therefore boost engagement. Not sure if its the case here but well, if it was then it worked! 😂

That's because the system doesn't hang like that anymore. Win98 could hang in deadlocks because of priority inversion , so calling system interrupt stopped all threads, and then you let them go , and that would fix ordering issues. Nowadays the only thing that really hangs windows is I/O failure on the page file , which should never happen in the system disk to begin with, unless your hdd is already about to die.

​@@monad_tcp or the CPU is so busy that Windows won't even update the mouse cursor, much less refresh the screen, more than once a second. When that happens, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work either. Or at least not until next month.

SysRq is pretty neat. If the kernel hasn't stopped, the SysRq sequence "REISUB" will gracefully reboot Linux without fail. Super useful when trying to game on limited hardware with the OS on a hard drive...

@@phizc that doesn't happen with the new scheduler since Windows10 . Why are you maxing your system like that. I do all sorts of abuse to my system and it never hangs like that. Once I crashed my Nvidia so hard that I lost the video and had to RDP into the system . Even then I was able to disable and enable back the GPU and it rebooted. I was amazed. I remember GPU crashes used to bring down Windows7 I never saw a kernel hang on Windows since the Windows7 . Your computer hardware might have some defect or something , I would look if there's a lot of DPC coming , that will bring down the CPU itself . To be fair I had a hang on Windows11 once, it was my fault because I'm a software developer and I found a bug in my CPU microcode , which I was using the old version. It was the VMware driver that caused that BSOD , I was testing things and found a bug in the PMU, it's a hardware bug and I fixed it by updating the motherboard firmware, aka, the "BIOS". If Windows give a bluescreen , it's 80% of the time a real hardware fault, and 20% of time badly written drivers, and less than 1% real kernel bugs. That bugcheck never happened again after I updated . There's a errata in the CPU and Linux also crashes the same way without the firmware patch. It's a problem in synchronization of the CPU cores themselves . There are other bugs in the freaking PMU , but those don't bring down the system, Linux complains when booting , and with reason. Serves me well for buying a Broadwell Stupid PMU, but what can we do, nowadays CPUs are full of bugs that are fixed by Microcode update that comes with Windows Update , which you guys keep refusing to install , that I know you do. Perhaps that's why you're system is unstable.

@@phizc CPU at 100% smells like IRQ flood . Leran to properly configure the hardware, or stop buying junk.

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I always use power button long press restart works in 100% and much faster

Long press power button until screen goes completely black.

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WTF!

And maybe if the physical button just doesn’t work for some reason

@@achmodinivswe9500But then how are you gonna power the computer back on

@@bmw_e36_ nah, I mean that if the computer doesn’t register the power button when the computer have frozen. Though I guess you would probably need you computer repaired by that point

@@achmodinivswe9500 windows doesn’t control the power button, the mobo does. it either works or doesn’t

@@XShadowCatzX I wasn’t really thinking about windows and just more about the computer

@@gamtax 90% of the times I can't even see what's going on the pc

I think the computer be like Task1 - task2 - task3 ctrl+alt+del = drop evertthing you doing. IT would be like you tell ur kid to drop everything they do, even if that means you break something. Lets say a fire happens in ur house. Ctrl+alt+del = drop everything like those expensive plates, then pick up the fire extinguinger and then u can put it out

@@prankerganster3985 What if your kid is so scared and terrified he won't move, he understands you, but can't move at all from fear? That's what my computer does

Ctrl-Alt-Del is an interrupt sent to Windows and resides at a low level of the operating system. If those 3 key combo doesn't work, it means that nothing else will on Windows.

i rarely ever use ctrl alt del tbh i dont see any reason people actually use it

What does that do

the same but without any dialog

@@RoseQuartz692 It restarts the computer even if it's frozen

@@FrozenBoi but you still need the power button

@@RoseQuartz692 That's why I said laptop instead of PC

This would have saved me some time when i was doing remote support...

That's some bullshit driver hanging the system because of a lost thread This somehow only happens in cheap notebooks.

@@monad_tcp 5600X desktop… so no your wrong Its happened on every computer ive ever owned it doesnt happen often but its usually easy to spot when your system is going to lock and not shutdown or restart

@@commanderoof4578 I'm not wrong. It is some driver hanging the system. Notebooks are full of badly written drivers, so they're succetible to that bullshit. I never had any system lockup , it has nothing to do with the CPU. It's the motherboard and it's shitty drivers. Although desktop computers are usually better than notebooks, there are shit motherboards too. Also, if you are having hang problems just disable speed step or whatever is that AMD call that misfeature , you don't let the CPU clock down on C state transfer, unless you're running on battery. You want a stable system or what... It is some stupid configuration of power management in the motherboard, it always is. It's very common for shitty motherboards to hang on shutdown .

@@monad_tcp it will do it like 1 in 100 times FFS are you a troll or something? Also the motherboard holds things together and is not responsible for the drivers windows is unless your manually using the drivers off the motherboards support page

It's more that cases don't come with them, every MB I've looked at still has the pins to hook up a reset button. Some cases do have a reset button though, they just aren't the fancy ones that people tend to turn to when building a PC.

I have a reset button

@@ZA2F As do I. I also have a "turbo" button in case I ever want to bring my PC to a dead stop for some real retro gaming, though I could repurpose that button to be a toggle for some RGB if I wanted.

Just press and hold the power button. When It's off then press it again.

@@EweChewBrrr01 At that point you might as well be flipping the switch on the PSU or just unplugging it and plugging it back in. Force reboots like that are supposed to be an absolute last resort because they can corrupt system files. The reset button is a one-button shortcut to the emergency reset command with ROOT authority, as long as your computer isn't totally screwed it'll safely restart the system even if you can't bring up the system menu with CTRL+ALT+DEL. Use a normal force reboot by holding the power button for that and you've got a good chance that you'll be booting into a dead system that needs an OS reinstall.

If it's frozen, then yeah, wait a bit to see if it recovers. Waiting for a BSoD to recover is a lost cause though. Holding the power button is the only course of action at that point.

@@NorthLaker I don't mean indefinitely, sometimes you get a lock up for a few of seconds and then a BSOD after that. I'm just saying don't immediately power cycle if the OS is unresponsive. In my experience if it doesn't come back or BSOD after like 30-60 seconds it's never going to.

​@@NorthLakerwut? Bsod doesn't last more then 2 seconds for me. It's probably going to shutdown itself anyways thanks to my unstable overclock haha.

I miss the old Abort, Retry, Fail....

if you set task manager to always on top of other programs then it might show you the task manager on your screen and end task the game without hard restart.

@@azure3438 yea i dunno if i made it clear but opening CMD or task manager which is always set to always on top. nothing will load. the window loads but not fully loaded and its a black background and not responding. it happens with every program i tried opening. dunno if i didnt word it correctly enough but yeah when i mean nothing will load i mean quite literately nothing will load!

​@@iAmDiBBzput the game on normal priority or even low. It might help.

This means, it must exist in Windows2000 and Windows XP, too?

I think that way can actually cause damage to your computer, unless you're someone that doesn't care about computers.

@@automation7295 The main way this can cause issues is if a file is being written while unplugging. But modern filesystems have protections for this, and the worst that could happen is that you lose some data. And even if, for some reason, you have more major issues after this, it won't cause physical damage and it's nothing an OS reinstall can't fix

@@lunlunnnnn it can cause physical damage to older disc drives with physical disks , wont hurt anything if have a ssd

“Modern PSUs are built with… technology in order to deal with sudden power outages,” he explains. “As a result, forcibly shutting down your device via the power button will not do any harm to the hardware.” So, no, doing it once in a while won't endanger your machine. -From Google

@@Life_is_Monkey A decent mobo wouldn't treat holding the power button as a sudden outage anyway, it would gracefully power down devices at least.

I didn't even know something like this existed in Windows... Do you have any link for more debug shortcuts like this?

@@AlexRaylight u can google saying who to restart gpu drivers

For others different shortcuts u can google and explore different websites. I learnt many of them the same whay

Does only work sometimes in my experience. Also occasionally if the display drivers fail remoting into to the pc with something like chrome remote desktop will also get them to restart.

My server doesn't have power button. How do I do it there?

You should be interested in SuperF4, in which Ctrl+Alt+F4 will kill active app immediately.

@@Diaco1200 sometimes that function doesn't work, for whatever reasons..

where you live ?

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@@turbousedtogocrazy are you going to kill him or something

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You can't.

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That would probably be useless because even if you restart, you will still have the same IP address. It’s not like the dialup days.

How do you press it