Having some hanging issues when doing something on disk
 

Recently started noticing that whenever I do something like create a new
file folder or sometimes even start a program, Windows 10 just hangs.
While looking at if anything is busy during this time, CPU utilization
seems normal and low, and disk activity is also normal and low. I can't
seem to find any reason for these hang ups. I can still do other stuff
while it's busy doing this. Is there somewhere in the Windows 10 event
viewer logs that I can look at to see what's going on? This machine used
to run Windows 7, and it now run Windows 10, and it never had these
issues under 7.

Yousuf Khan

Having some hanging issues when doing something on disk
 

Yousuf Khan wrote:
Recently started noticing that whenever I do something like create a new
file folder or sometimes even start a program, Windows 10 just hangs.
While looking at if anything is busy during this time, CPU utilization
seems normal and low, and disk activity is also normal and low. I can't
seem to find any reason for these hang ups. I can still do other stuff
while it's busy doing this. Is there somewhere in the Windows 10 event
viewer logs that I can look at to see what's going on? This machine used
to run Windows 7, and it now run Windows 10, and it never had these
issues under 7.

Yousuf Khan

Have you looked at Shell Extensions ?

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

From an architectural point of view, File Explorer
is a rickety piece of crap. As it's so easy to
screw it up.

Start with a folder with 60,000 files in it.
Move half of them to another folder. The
source folder will develop the "busy cursor"
which seems to sit there forever. One of many
examples of "flaky pastry" software design.

Paul

Having some hanging issues when doing something on disk
 

Yousuf Khan writes:

Recently started noticing that whenever I do something like create a
new file folder or sometimes even start a program, Windows 10 just
hangs. While looking at if anything is busy during this time, CPU
utilization seems normal and low, and disk activity is also normal and
low. I can't seem to find any reason for these hang ups. I can still
do other stuff while it's busy doing this. Is there somewhere in the
Windows 10 event viewer logs that I can look at to see what's going
on? This machine used to run Windows 7, and it now run Windows 10, and
it never had these issues under 7.

I've seen this behavior (on a Linux, not Windows machine) when a disk
was flaking out. Whenever I'd do anything that involved an actual disk
access everything would stop for a few seconds; some log entries about
ATA resets would appear and everything would start running again.

Having some hanging issues when doing something on disk
 

On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 22:41:29 -0400 "Yousuf Khan" bbbl67
@spammenot.yahoo.com wrote in article ae-dnZRE8t9HPofFnZ2dnUU7-

I can't
seem to find any reason for these hang ups.


Is there network activity?

Having some hanging issues when doing something on disk
 

On 11/3/2016 10:50 AM, Jason wrote:
On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 22:41:29 -0400 "Yousuf Khan" bbbl67
@spammenot.yahoo.com wrote in article ae-dnZRE8t9HPofFnZ2dnUU7-

I can't
seem to find any reason for these hang ups.


Is there network activity?

Normal activity, unrelated to the activity that is hanging.

Having some hanging issues when doing something on disk
 

On 11/3/2016 10:44 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
I've seen this behavior (on a Linux, not Windows machine) when a disk
was flaking out. Whenever I'd do anything that involved an actual disk
access everything would stop for a few seconds; some log entries about
ATA resets would appear and everything would start running again.

Yeah, I got Hard Disk Sentinel installed, and it reports no new problems
on any of these drives.

Having some hanging issues when doing something on disk
 

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Yousuf Khan wrote:

Recently started noticing that whenever I do something like create a new
file folder or sometimes even start a program, Windows 10 just hangs.
While looking at if anything is busy during this time, CPU utilization
seems normal and low, and disk activity is also normal and low. I can't
seem to find any reason for these hang ups. I can still do other stuff
while it's busy doing this. Is there somewhere in the Windows 10 event
viewer logs that I can look at to see what's going on? This machine used
to run Windows 7, and it now run Windows 10, and it never had these
issues under 7.


Run Win10 "Refresh". That should clean up any remaining problems.