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RestartManager generating numerous events each second

C. Sciberras 10 Reputation points
2023-03-28T21:26:04.6566667+00:00

Long story: I've been using Windows 11 for a while now and I've noticed some stability problems and anomalies from time to time (compared to earlier Windows versions), so I've started investigating a bit. Just a few moments ago, I left the machine on for a few moments and when I got back I found it completely frozen and unresponsive. This happened a couple of times before, so I checked the event log.

Shorter story: The "Application" group of events in the event log contains a lot of events that look like a repetition of:

Information 28/03/2023 23:04:37 RestartManager 10001 Ending session 1 started ‎2023‎-‎03‎-‎28T21:04:36.982449700Z.

Information 28/03/2023 23:04:36 RestartManager 10000 Starting session 1 - ‎2023‎-‎03‎-‎28T21:04:36.982449700Z.

And by a lot I mean 68/second!

The entries are informational, but:

  1. could it be a symptom of a larger problem? I noticed the machine never fully goes to sleep and (the screen) keeps turning on and off after a few moments (but this could also relate to a highly sensitive mouse)
    1. is it possible to disable this? it is effectively overshadowing other (potentially more interesting) events

Some general specs: the machine is an LG Gram 17 laptop connected to a Razer TB4 dock and Razer eGPU, running Windows 11 Home.

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  2. Erik Pitti 0 Reputation points
    2025-02-13T14:59:05.2833333+00:00

    For me this ended up being a bad Windows Update. The situation devolved with the next round of updates to where the system got stuck in a reboot loop where it would try to install, fail, reboot and uninstall the update that ultimately broke the system for good. I left the system running overnight hoping that it would "fix" itself. Ultimately the only fix was to wipe/reload Windows 11 on the drive, which got me back into windows, but now I had to reinstall all my apps.

    At that point, I decided to get a Mac and use that as my primary desktop instead.

    Bottom line reinstalling windows from scratch worked, but the whole experience left me feeling burned by Microsoft.

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