Re:Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
by artemonster on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:10AM
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I know how to use ps or top. what to do when you cannot launch terminal even?
Re:Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
by Corsome on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:28AM
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Ctrl+alt+f2 (Or any other F) will give you additional login terminal.
Re:Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
by joshspankit on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:06AM
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Counter-intuitively my usual go-to is to SSH in from another device (phone, tablet, another computer). 95% of the time when the UI is locked up the ssh daemon is still responsive.
Note: I also do this on macOS but it’s much less useful since there are very few commands to actually restore a session that’s locked up.
I see people offering nice advice here but I mostly do ps aux | grep thing and then kill (-9) it... or killall :)
> any random hang-up is a forced restart, no way to kill offending process as EVERYTHING just freezes up.
I had the everything freeze up experience initially on a Dell laptop and frankly don't know what was the cause. Maybe missing microcode updates or old firmware? Nowadays it almost never happens (I don't remember it happening over the months). I have an app crash (like Firefox) ~once a month but it's so rare I barely notice.