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8GadgetPack freezing
I have 2 PCs, one an HP laptop, the other an ASUS desktop, that are both pretty well configured almost identically, same programs installed, same settings and tweaks.
I’m running the latest version of 8GadgetPack on both and had no problems at all for months. (I only use the MS clock, calendar, and weather gadgets.) Then a couple weeks ago they started freezing on my laptop. I noticed the clock was almost 45 minutes behind one day. I tried to double-click it and then right-click on it and then tried the other 2 gadgets. All 3 were frozen. I closed all 3 down with the task manager and re-opened them. They ran fine for about 5 minutes then froze again. (The clock stopping is the give-away.)
I did a system clean with CCleaner and then rebooted. The gadgets loaded and worked for about 5 mins again and then froze up again. After a few days of trying to solve this I decided “screw it” and went to uninstall it. I saw a “Repair/Reset” option on the uninstall screen and decided to try that first. It worked, and the gadgets started running normally again and continued to do so for a few weeks. I thought the problem was fixed. Today, out of nowhere, the freezing started again (I noticed the clock had stopped)! I tried the reset again, which didn’t work this time. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Still freezing. Now I’m at a loss.
This whole time on my other PC, these same gadgets having been running flawlessly. As I said, both systems are running the same version of 8GadgetPack and Win10, fully updated, and both systems are configured almost identically.
What the heck—?
Last edited by pjfarr; 26 Aug 2016 at 16:09.