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New Canary Build killed my Steam
On a new build (from 25/4), I can no longer use Steam. It starts and after some seconds all the other processes and windows freeze and stop responding (as well as the taskbar items). Only rebooting h...
FYI, the latest build 25370 that dropped today seems to have *finally* fixed this issue with the computer locking up when steam opens.
Same problem here!
When i tried to run Steam it rendered all OS unusable. (Even graphs in Task Manager were frozen)
I contacted Steam support and did some research on my own. However, my results were not very successful, so i tried to dig deeper and used ProcessExlorer to see whats happening.
I tried to restart Task Manager and saw that it have WrPushLock.
I did some googling and it lead me to an article about Unkillable Process: https://dennisbabkin.com/blog/?t=pwning-windows-kernel-unkillable-user-mode-process-part2
Also i found a video about it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK6r3XOzlv4
When i tried to run Steam it rendered all OS unusable. (Even graphs in Task Manager were frozen)
I contacted Steam support and did some research on my own. However, my results were not very successful, so i tried to dig deeper and used ProcessExlorer to see whats happening.
I tried to restart Task Manager and saw that it have WrPushLock.
I did some googling and it lead me to an article about Unkillable Process: https://dennisbabkin.com/blog/?t=pwning-windows-kernel-unkillable-user-mode-process-part2
Also i found a video about it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK6r3XOzlv4