Critical Error on shutdown or restart


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  On 03/06/2019 at 11:22, devnulllore said:

All of a sudden every time I restart or reboot windows gives me a critical error notification. The screen goes blank by that point so I cannot see what the error is. Are there logs of these errors I can look at. Where do I start?

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Event viewer should show you any errors, also you could try Whocrashed (assuming it's a bluescreen error)

Try to see if it is a recently installed software or Windows Update that caused it. If you have system restore enabled, maybe go back to a time when you didn't get the critical stop sound.

 

I am guessing it is the sound you hear when an app crashes (or is forced stopped) which usually also pauses shutdown or reboot. It is the most annoying thing to discover hanged programs (even file explorer) when rebooting or shutting down Windows :| 

I found out what it is. I use the Electric Sheep screen saver and once in a while my Eset (not so) Smart Security blocks a URL it is trying to reach and Windows gives me the critical error sound. How can I get Eset to stop blocking certain sites?

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