Is Edge browser causing Desktop freezes and abnormal Shutdowns?

Well it certainly installed okay. I got asked a lot of privacy and telemetry questions after the upgrade. This morning I checked reliability monitor and was surprised to find a new critical event associated with devicecensus.exe. I've read the Ten Forum thread and have taken the advise to disable the scheduled task, and I'll see how that goes.

I hope to do a memtest86+ today. I noticed from the tutorial I need a new USB drive to create a bootable disk, for the memtest program.

Im still working on a backup strategy for this machine. I guess that the desktop freezes and abnormal shutdowns has put me off wanting to create a system image of the current installation.

dalchina said:

It's usually never too early to create a disk image. When it's too late, you know about it!

That is such good advise , mind - I am looking for alternatives to Win10 File History, as I do not like the way this backs up personal data.

iko22 said:

This morning I checked reliability monitor and was surprised to find a new critical event associated with devicecensus.exe. I've read the Ten Forum thread and have taken the advise to disable the scheduled task, and I'll see how that goes.

I can confirm, disabling the scheduled task of devicecensus.exe cures the occurance of a daily critical event.

iko22 said:

I hope to do a memtest86+ today. I noticed from the tutorial I need a new USB drive to create a bootable disk, for the memtest program.

Well I did 8 passes of memtest86+. It took a gruelling 18:30 hours and returned no errors. As soon as the test completed, I went into Windows, started my browser, started mail app, and clicked on a http link in my email, ... AND, craaaSH!!! The desktop froze again. ... I say AGAIN, yet the desktop freeze is different: This time I can move mouse pointer, but nothing responds.

Is this crash related thread topic, or is it because of 1803 upgrade? This type of crash hasn't re-occurred in over three days now ...

1) Please post images of all test results into the thread.
2) If there are any problems posting images please use one drive or drop box share links.

3) For memtest86+ version 5.01 please use a camera or smart phone camera to take a picture and post an image into the thread.

4) Update the specs in the "My Computer" section:

System Specs - Fill in at Ten Forums | Windows 10 Tutorials
In the left corner below in your post you find 'My System Specs'.
After clicking it you can find a link a little below that says 'Update your System Spec', click on this link to get to the page where you can fill in your system specs.
System Info - See Your System Specs - Windows 7 Help Forums

Include PSU. cooler, case, peripherals and anything attached to the computer by wired or wireless (mouse, keyboard, headset, printer, xbox, USB wireless network card, etc.)


5) There are different editions of HD Sentinel. Were you able to run a full surface scan or a full error scan? If not please use HD Tune to post images of the results on these tabs: Health, benchmark, and full error scan.

6) Run the BETA log collector and post a zip into this thread for troubleshooting.
https://www.tenforums.com/attachment...-v2-beta10.zip
(extract > open)

Use the txt and images in this thread in case there are problems running the beta log collector: (post #5)
DM Log tool problem Solved - Windows 10 Forums
DM Log tool problem Solved - Windows 10 Forums

7) What is the over clocking history?
8) Make sure that there is no over clocking during the troubleshooting.
9) When was the last time the BIOS was reset?

DESKTOP-P45N556 (2018-08-02 22 28).zip

zbook said:

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7) What is the over clocking history?
8) Make sure that there is no over clocking during the troubleshooting.
9) When was the last time the BIOS was reset?

The crashes occur regardless of RAM clocking XMP2 or OC. I have tried XMP2 2133, XMP2 2400, XMP2 2667 and OC 2933 MHz. That is, changing RAM frequency has not increased or decreased occurrence of crashes.

The BIOS has never been reset since installing Windows 10.

Please ask if you want more uploads. I think I include everything.