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Have Process Explorer open in the background and when the focus is stolen hit Alt+F4 (kill process) and quickly switch to PE (Alt+Tab), the program closing will be listed in RED (last time I checked).

There have been a couple of little software toys that should pick up the focus stealer but I can’t remember them though HappyDroid’s Focus https://www.happydroid.com/focus should do the trick – it does have one red flag (generic suspicious) on Virustotal but that’s 99+% going to be a false positive: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f3f6bbe9dfce2eb0336a0a43cae30162f7afcf2fe1a3b2850e9dd3997facc6da

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TechTango

The YT link plus browser version and your graphics details might help find the cause.

You could have downloaded and tested all of them by now – get the 64bit if that’s what you have.

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dataman1701

Details on the Bugcheck listed on bsod.jpg?

Reliability Monitor should enable you to drill down and show some specifics. Control Panel\System and Security\Security and Maintenance\Reliability Monitor

The 25GB ‘missing’ partition is going to be a non-MS style deliberately to prevent stock Windows tools interfering with the OEM Windows install recovery, thus it’s a no-show in Diskpart.

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Cybertooth, PKCano

Doesn’t have to be network drivers, any driver that interact with the networking stack could be the cause. Check those motherboard utility and security drivers, downloading tools, firewalls, security suites, torrent clients, virtual drives…

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PL1

Sorry to spoil the party – but Pale Moon on Win11 24H2 isn’t triggering any such issues.

@fernlady & @b you’ve ticked boxes thus suggesting you also have similar issues here recently but using which tools and platforms?

FAQ’s, Feedback & Suggestions? https://www.askwoody.com/forums/forum/askwoody-central/

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wavy

Kathy Stevens wrote:

it is unnecessary to delete the partitions to prevent data recovery?

It’s pointless, anyone with experience/knowledge could reverse it in minutes.

Destroy the data by overwriting then physically ruin the internal disks.

Kathy Stevens wrote:

Delete the partitions on each drive,

Waste of time, I’ve been known to recover 100% data + running Win NT after the PC was Fdisked +formatted to FAT32, installed Win9x and used for 2 years. One floppy disk and a few minutes is all that took.

jniffen wrote:

Intermittent problems are the worst, you never its fixed for a long time.

Not if you go about the diags the right way.

Stop guessing and jumping to conclusions.

Logs, crash dump analysis, MSInfo32, Reliability history and experience all have their parts to play.

The BIOS feeds ACPI, which feeds Windows Device and Power Management systems – like Flight mode, leaner is frequently better – minimise the pretties/spider webs enabled in the BIOS and there will be fewer (third-party?) drivers to trigger log jams, burps and crashes…

Sysnative.com would be my first port of call for audio latency issues that needed an in-depth investigation.

Bugcheck strings would be useful, use DriverView (Nirsoft) to find what drivers are loaded – exclude any ‘dump’ drivers and all MS/Windows drivers, any/all ‘utility’ software drivers are suspect though most are safe if up-to-date.

Time outs/wait periods are sometimes an issue with graphics-related crashes, where the CPU isn’t able to deliver the data required for a GPU call, sometimes it’s a ‘bad’ driver causing a logjam or corrupting data in memory.

Sometimes Reliability History can help, MS can sometimes offer the correct ‘fix’ if you allow data out.

Screenshots/details would be useful – much better than guessing games

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Microfix

Alex5723 wrote:

Clear Disk Info app marks as obsolete SSDs that are found to be good by CrystalDiskInfo, Samsung Magician, AS SSD Benchmark..

Which could mean that CrystalDiskInfo is correct; perhaps you need to review your reviews for accuracy, a dictionary and translator might help.

Hint:- obsolete does not mean or imply damaged or something that’s about to implode. No longer made, out of warranty/favour/fashion, or older technology would be more fitting.

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rc primak

Some workstation benchmarking comparisons pitting the Battlemage B580 against some competitors at Igor’s Lab.