This has happened to me twice now. Windows 8.1 decides to suspend all my processes all of a sudden. Now I know that it does that to Metro apps that are in background. But my regular desktop apps (including Explorer) might be exempted from that, I guess (especially when I'm currently using them).
I could get it to run again more or less by starting Task Manager via Ctrl+Alt+Del, then killing Explorer and starting Process Explorer from there which enabled me to resume all processes again. But I still wonder how this happens in the first place. Specifically I'd like to ask whether that's in any way expected behaviour and what I could do to prevent it from occurring in the future.
My system is virus-free, just in case anyone asks. Yesterday I just tried to run msbuild
; after hitting ↲ above issue happened. A while ago I don't remember what I tried to do when it manifested, but I didn't think far enough to solve the problem with procexp
and ended up restarting the machine.
EDIT: Okay, it seems like starting msbuild triggers this behaviour. No idea why, though.
EDIT2: Apparently only when running it from Far Manager (actually, it's a batch file for me, which calls the vsvars32
batch and runs msbuild
afterwards. It runs fine from cmd
or PowerShell.
EDIT3: Updating Far Manager to its latest version changed nothing. However, running msbuild
directly (not through the batch file) worked even from Far.
For completeness:
- Far Manager
My
PATH
includes the directoryD:\Users\Joey\Batches
which contains a batch filemsbuild.cmd
with the following contents:@echo off call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat" msbuild %*
Then, running
msbuild
from within Far seems to produce this problem. At least for me, reliably.
msbuild
. I could reproduce the problem twice in the last half hour. Not once didmsbuild
run normally.