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My system keeps hanging. The image shown below shows Chrome process 5660 as active while my disk utilization is peaked. During this time my computer seems to freeze. I can't open a new tab, can't use Ctrl + Alt + Delete, I can't even Alt + Tab. Then after 55 seconds or so, it seems whatever process that was causing my computer to hang times out and everything begins to work normally.

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It's easily reproducible, basically I'm checking out this map, and as I zoom in and out, the system goes into a hanging state. It's mentioned here that I can use arguments to disable GPU involvement (I'm not sure if it's GPU related though. Process explorer reported minimal GPU usage during these freezes). But I would rather dig a little deeper to see if I can find a direct cause. Perhaps a specific process, service or driver that is causing this, so it can be forwarded to the appropriate company.

What else can I do to better identify this situation?

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  • Also, I understand it may not be chrome that is causing my system to hang, but the service/process that is causing chrome and my system to hang. And it's not my hard drive, because this has happened on 3 of my hard drives. – CodeSeven Dec 15 '13 at 03:15
  • did you turn off extensions in chrome? – Logman Dec 15 '13 at 03:38
  • Yes. Still happens :\ – CodeSeven Dec 15 '13 at 04:05
  • chrome://flags Check for known conflicts with 3rd party modules Play with gpu/software rendering WebGl D3d other graphics settings – Mrsonord Dec 15 '13 at 04:22
  • Ok. But my original question is about how to find what process, service or driver is involved with the disk utilization spike, not how to keep it from happening. – CodeSeven Dec 15 '13 at 05:08
  • its not the browser, its a plugin/ext/activex/etc... that causes the problems. Does it happen on certain websites? http://superuser.com/questions/254579/how-to-open-google-chrome-with-extensions-disabled-turned-off – Logman Dec 15 '13 at 05:14
  • How much memory does your system have and how much is used/free when this happens? Are any of the `chrome.exe` instances using a lot of memory when it happens? – Synetech Dec 15 '13 at 06:03
  • temporary stop the **Superfetch** service in Windows and look if this fixes it. – magicandre1981 Dec 15 '13 at 07:01
  • Ok, again. Like I originally said to begin with. "I understand it may not be chrome thats causing my system to hang". I'll now go back to asking, again. – CodeSeven Dec 15 '13 at 22:16
  • How can I find what processes, services or drivers are involved while my system is hanging? Is there a way to see what process service or driver is using up my disk during that time? Or how bout, "Is there an android "logcat" equivalent for windows 7?" – CodeSeven Dec 15 '13 at 22:23
  • Probably java. ! – MDMoore313 Dec 17 '13 at 14:26

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