LOL, can’t get much further in the 50 states!
Northern Washington to Northern Main or Northern Washington to Southern Florida would do it, at least in the contiguous 48.
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I suggest running Task Manager, part of Windows 11. For me it appears on the task bar at the bottom, third icon in after Start and File Explorer. It shows CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and Power usage for each wee bit of what is running. Clicking on the column heading sorts on that measure. I might look at all of them when trouble shooting, but for day to day I sort on Power usage. I start it now and then just to be used to seeing what normal looks like.
Note that you can end tasks pretty easily there, though if it is something in runaway mode it might not cancel quickly.
I make no claim to expertise on security, but I run Bitdefender and Malwarebytes, for whatever that is worth. I’ve had no issues with them doing their jobs, nor with them not doing their jobs. But I’m pretty careful.
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My task manager does not have “power usage”. Weird. I have the other four you list.
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You probably have to turn on the display of that column. Just right-click on one of the other column headings and select “Power usage”:
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Once again, thanks! But three words isn’t enough for this discussion forum to accept, so #$%^&()(&^%D$^%((D(*&$
Have a good day!
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New computer keeps blue screening me.
See attached photo.
Not sure what to do. It happens regularly. Twice today alone although usually about once a week.
The advanced repair options seem to only include resetting the computer. And reinstalling Windows would also suck. Either way, I would have to spend days reinstalling all my software and getting all the settings right again, which is way too much for me to consider.
Do I just have to live with it and restart every time this happens?
Windows 11 seems to be yet another “upgrade” that is a “downgrade”. Windows 10 was flawless for me.
Disclaimer: I have zero real life experience with this since I’ve never seen it happen on my Windows 11 laptop. That said…
If you click on “Restart my PC”, does it always start correctly?
You might also try running the “sfc /scannow” command from a command line prompt. It’s the “system file checker”. See
The following article has some promising ideas for how to fix the problem. But the easiest thing to try is to check if “hybrid sleep” is enabled, and if it is, turn it off. By the grace of the gods, there’s a slim chance this could be your problem:
Solution 1: Turn Off Hybrid Sleep
Some users have indicated that the Hybrid Sleep feature may also trigger the “Windows couldn’t load correctly” error. So, when you encounter this error, you can try disabling Hybrid Sleep to fix it.
Step 1: Type control panel into the Search box and choose it to open.
Step 2: In the Control Panel window, set view items with Large icons. Then click on Power Options > Change plan settings.
Step 3: Click on the Change advanced power settings link to open the Advanced setting tab.
Step 4: Expand Sleep > Allow hybrid sleep and then change On to Off.
Step 5: Click on Apply > OK.
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Yes, when I click on restart, it starts up fine.
When I try your command prompt suggestion I get this message:
“You must be an administrator running a console session in order to
use the sfc utility”
How am I NOT the administrator? I’m the only one using this computer.
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When I get to step 4, there is no “allow hybrid sleep”. It’s weird how often instructions for software I’m using don’t match my system!
Under “Sleep” there is just two options:
“Sleep After” - I have this set for “never” for both battery and plugged in.
“Allow Wake Timers”
Rick
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Ah. I don’t see it either on Windows Home. I think it must be that only Windows Pro makes that option visible by default. There’s probably a registry tweak that can fix that … but after 30 minutes of googling down rabbit holes, I gave up trying to find that tweak. I’m not as young as I used to be…
Thanks. Now that I know how to run it as administrator, I’m doing the sfc /scannow you suggested.
It ended saying “Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations”
So no help there.
I’m going to start tracking when it happens, see how often I get the blue screen. What did it used to be called? The BSOD? Blue Screen Of Death or something like that? LOL! It used to happen a lot, but Windows 10 was the best Windows ever. I never had a problem for those years. I wish they had left it at that forever! But then they couldn’t justify their jobs I guess.
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