Exes stop executing after a while

Hi,
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 11S, and my OS is Windows 10. After using it for some time, suddenly all the executables (exes) stop working. Even the windows commands like reboot, task manager etc. don't start at all. The Windows menu continues to function, but on clicking the buttons nothing happens. The only thing I can do is a hard reboot. After the reboot, the problems go away for some time, and then reappear again.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Ajey

I've experienced this intermittently, but often, with all releases of Win10 through 1706. (I haven't installed the Fall CU yet, but I expect to see the problem there, too.) My impression is that it happens most often shortly after a major upgrade and gradually becomes less frequent.

If I have the patience to wait it out, things eventually wake up. Sometimes it takes over 30 minutes, but programs I've tried to invoke finally start running. (Or the requested shutdown starts, etc.) It had been nearly happening every time I reboot or wake from sleep, but usually only once a day. Now it happens once a week or less often.

Every time I recovery from one of these hangups (either by waiting or by doing a forced shutdown) I look in the Event log. I have never seen anything pointing to an obvious problem.

This is obviously not something that happens to many people or somebody would have collected enough information to track down the cause. I suspect it's dependent on the combination of hardware and installed software. I'm sort of relieved to hear that someone else is experiencing it, but that is kind of cold comfort.

If anybody has suggestions on collecting diagnostic documentation for problems like this I would like to hear them. Uninstalling 3rd party programs isn't practical since it sometimes takes over a week for the problem to happen. I have very few installed programs that I can do without for over a week.

First a correction: "1706" obviously should have been "1607". I eventually did clean installs of 1507 and 1511. Those clean installs fixed some problems but not this "hangup" problem. In fact it put me back to the more frequent hangup situation. And the process of reinstalling and reconfiguring 3rd party software was a royal pain so I chose not to do another clean install again unless things become unbearable. (The products that claim to reinstall and reconfigure software automatically don't seem to know about the music notation software, the sound libraries, the HTML editors, etc. that I use daily.)

To fix the associations do the following:

• Please open a new Notepad file.
• Copy and paste the following into Notepad:
  
  
  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe]
  @="exefile"
  "Content Type"="application/x-msdownload"
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\PersistentHandler]
  @="{098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile]
  @="Application"
  "EditFlags"=hex:38,07,00,00
  "TileInfo"="prop:FileDescription;Company;FileVersion"
  "InfoTip"="prop:FileDescription;Company;FileVersion;Create;Size"
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\DefaultIcon]
  @="%1"
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell]
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open]
  "EditFlags"=hex:00,00,00,00
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command]
  @=""%1" %*"
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas]
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas\command]
  @=""%1" %*"
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex]
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\DropHandler]
  @="{86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D}"
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers]
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\PEAnalyser]
  @="{09A63660-16F9-11d0-B1DF-004F56001CA7}"
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\PifProps]
  @="{86F19A00-42A0-1069-A2E9-08002B30309D}"
  
  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\ShimLayer Property Page]
  @="{513D916F-2A8E-4F51-AEAB-0CBC76FB1AF8}"
  
  
  
• Save this as fix.reg, save it to your desktop.
• Double click fix.reg to run it.
• Select yes to the registry merge prompt.

Now, try to open a exe file again and it should work

FreeBooter said:

To fix the associations do the following:

• Please open a new Notepad file.
• Copy and paste the following into Notepad:
  ...
• Save this as fix.reg, save it to your desktop.
• Double click fix.reg to run it.
• Select yes to the registry merge prompt.

Now, try to open a exe file again and it should work

Was that posted in the right thread? I don't see how it applies to the problem at hand. I personally would not manually change the registry without knowing exactly how such a change would fix the problem.

pokeefe0001 said:

Was that posted in the right thread? I don't see how it applies to the problem at hand. I personally would not manually change the registry without knowing exactly how such a change would fix the problem.

What do you thing applies to OP problem, i have supplied registry fix for .exe file extension association.