Analyze Wait Chain: Identify hung or frozen process in Windows 10

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Expect Chain Traversal is a feature that was introduced in Windows 7. It is a tool that lets you lot identify the bodily process that is resulting in a hung or frozen application. Windows 10/8 goes a step farther and lets y'all analyze Look Chain right from the Windows ten Task Director itself. My colleague Shyam had briefly touched on the Wait Chain Traversal (WCT) feature, which allows debuggers to diagnose application hangs and deadlocks while talking about the features of the Windows Chore Manager. Today, let's see it in a fiddling more detail.

Await Chain Traversal

In Windows vii, the Resource Monitor offers the ability to clarify Wait Concatenation. Run resmon to open the Resources Monitor. Identify the hung or suspended process, the Overview or CPU tab and right-click on it. In the context menu, y'all volition see Analyze Expect Chain.

Windows 10/8 now allows you to analyze Wait Chain right from the Windows Chore Director itself, autonomously from the Resource Monitor. Open your Task Manager and identify the hung or frozen process. Right-click on information technology and select Analyze wait chain in the context carte du jour.

Clarify Wait Chain

The Analyze Expect Chain tree shows which processes or open nodes in a tree are using or waiting to use a resource used by another process or child nodes in the tree, and is required for the selected process to continue. Wait Concatenation Traversal (WCT) enables Windows debuggers to diagnose awarding hangs and deadlocks. You can read more than almost it on TechNet.

One time you open the Overview or CPU tabs, you'll find the list of running processes. If a process is "stuck", it'll be highlighted with red text, "Non responding". You can correct-click on the process, and assign a new task, including ending the procedure.

Impale Not responding, hung, frozen process

If you select Analyze Wait Chain, you will see a listing of processes and the procedure tree associated with it. You may also get to see a message – xyz.exe process is waiting for another procedure (abc.exe) , to give an example. If you have opened the Task Manager as an administrator, you lot volition be able to encounter many more processes. If you're running Windows as an ambassador, the Task Manager will already exist elevated past default in Windows 8. The post-obit figure just shows how the box looks. None of my processes were hanging long enough for me to get its Expect Tree.

You may now wait or choose to kill the process, just remember when you impale any process, if it is a system process, and other function dependants on it may also crash, so yous have to be careful here.

Incidentally, Process Hacker will also assist you notice out which of your process freezes. So volition What is Hang. This utility tries to detect the software or procedure that is currently hung, and displays some information that may allow you to sort out and empathize what exactly is at the root of such freezing.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-twelvemonth Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Delight read the entire post & the comments first, create a System Restore Point before making any changes to your system & be conscientious almost any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.