Posted on 05/04/2018 8:23:41 AM PDT by dayglored
Redmond, Google and Intel are desperately hunting for a fix
Microsoft says it's looking into reports that apps including "Hey Cortana" and Google Chrome hang or freeze for those who have installed the recent Windows 10 April 2018 Update.
The company suggests trying the Windows logo key + Ctrl + Shift + B to wake the screen or, for laptop users, opening and closing device lid, in an attempt to resolve the issue.
It's not immediately clear where the bug is hiding but developers from Microsoft, Google, and Intel are looking into it.
In a Chromium bug report thread – Chromium being the open source project behind Chrome – Yang Gu, a developer for Intel, suggests the problem is limited to those using the latest Windows 10 (version 1803) with Intel Kabylake (HD 620 and 630) chips.
In addition to Chrome misbehavior, there are also reports that Electron apps like Slack, which rely on an embedded version of Chromium, are crashing. Also, several users have reported Firefox problems after the Windows 10 update as well.
This has led to speculation that the bug may have something to do with how Windows interacts with ANGLE, a Google-developed graphics engine abstraction layer used by Chrome and Firefox to run WebGL content on Windows devices by translating OpenGL calls to Direct3D.
Those investigating the issue have observed that crashes no longer occur when the --disable-direct-composition flag is set. They also report that the problem isn't present in the latest Canary build of Chrome.
Turning off hardware acceleration in Chrome fixes the issue for some.
Microsoft says it hopes to have a fix ready for its next scheduled update on May 8. ®
“I did replace the 5400 RPM hard drive with a 7200 RPM. That made a big difference with the i7 processor.”
if you really want to REALLY supercharge that laptop, clone your current drive onto a Samsung EVO 860 SSD. You can always reuse it with your next PC. Samsung does actually make the best SSD in the biz right now. I won’t buy anything else but the Samsung SSDs ...
Sorry CatNip.....MY experience as I posted.
That you purport to know MY experience is pure totalitarian narcissism.
I’m so glad Win 7... I won’t bore you with the rest. Y’all know the song frontwards and backwards.
You mean BSOD?
I call BS.
I've been beating the hell outa Win 7 for 5 years and have never had a BSOD.
For me, Win 7 Pro x64 has been solid as a rock.
My sincere sympathies to FReepers who are putting up with Win 10.
“MY experience as I posted”
nope, you posted:
“W7 and its’ infamous & frequent BSD.””
that post is NOT about just your experience: that post is making a claim that it is well-known by the population at large that W7 has frequent BSODs, and that is an untrue claim.
infamous: “well known for some bad quality or deed”
1. You mean "BSOD", but that's a detail.
2. Win7 has been incredibly stable for most users. As with any OS, there are exceptional cases, but overall Win7 has an outstanding record for stability.
3. Win10 continues that stability, and other than logging in (which seems to be a lot slower), it's as fast or faster than Win7 on most tasks.
But it's just not accurate to characterize Win7 as unstable or BSOD-prone, other than the occasional exceptional case generally due to third-party drivers and such. If you're one of the folks having such trouble, sorry to hear about it.
I posted MY W7 & W10 experience.
Anyone who thinks THEY know MY experience more accurately than ME is a blooming idiot.
Good grief...
I’m tempted to try a Linux O/S again on my computer. Lord knows I’m tired of these M/S failures.
What the heck are you smoking!?!?!?
W10 is by the far the most UN-stable O/S Microsoft has put out so far, even more so than Vista. Even the government has had major trouble with it, and their insistence on utilizing a Cloud technology has made it even worse.
Windows 7 is still the most stable Windows operating system out there, followed by XP, both of which I have on my machine (the hard drive is dual-booted). Though I have W10 on another hard drive (I have a removable hard drive tray so I can switch back and forth), it is no where near as reliable as my Windows XP/7 hard drive.
Do it! I'm no computer genius, but I took the plunge a few years ago. The learning curve was nowhere near as steep as I had assumed.
Stick with "friendly" distros like Linux Mint, PC Linux OS, or Ubuntu to start. It's really not that hard.
I just gotta figure out the right one to start out with.
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