Bizarre thing. Working remotely on a friend's PC, I wanted to give the
thing a
"service". Weeded system files (took ages on a slow machine). Filesystem >check. DISM to scan the componenent store in preparation for an SFC
/Scannow
Crawled its way to 29% in about an hour. We agreed to leave it overnight.
Morning: still 29%. Looked in Google: several people suggested
maxmimising
the window in which it was running, then reducing it again.
It worked! 30%... 31% (etc).
How weird is that?
Crawled its way to 29% in about an hour. We agreed to leave it overnight.Perhaps an accidental click to start a drag/select, which has the
Morning: still 29%. Looked in Google: several people suggested maxmimising the window in which it was running, then reducing it again.
It worked! 30%... 31% (etc).
How weird is that?
Philip Herlihy wrote:
Crawled its way to 29% in about an hour. We agreed to leave it overnight.
Morning: still 29%. Looked in Google: several people suggested maxmimising
the window in which it was running, then reducing it again.
It worked! 30%... 31% (etc).
How weird is that?Perhaps an accidental click to start a drag/select, which has the
side-effect of pausing wha's running in the window?
Andy Burns wrote...
Perhaps an accidental click to start a drag/select, which has the
side-effect of pausing wha's running in the window?
Do we know it would do that? But a click is momentary, and as soon as the mouse button was lifted it should surely restart, if paused at all.
Philip Herlihy wrote:
Andy Burns wrote...
Perhaps an accidental click to start a drag/select, which has the
side-effect of pausing wha's running in the window?
Do we know it would do that? But a click is momentary, and as soon as the mouse button was lifted it should surely restart, if paused at all.
The new multi-tab command window seems to have changed behaviour, you
used to be able to leave selection in a state where the title read
"select blah" and I/O was blocked until yu hit enter ... not any longer.
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