Task Host Window
 

Sometimes, about 40% of startups result in my Samsung using W8 taking ages to load, sometimes not at all and the hard drive is running continuously. In this state it is slow to load Explorer and if it does it regularly freezes and the whole thing has to be shut down. Sometimes in has to be switched off physically but other times when it comes to the logging off page you have carry out a force shutdown. When I do this it comes up with 'task host window' as the culprit.

I have tried restoring it. I have switched from IE/Firefox/Chrome and back again but it doesn't happen all the time because I am writing this. It's a bind waiting for it to boot up, find it is all wrong, switch it off, reboot and if you are lucky it will get all the gizmos into gear.

Any suggestions as I don't want to have to do a full restore and reload all my programs.

On another thread you state you were, but are not now, using Win8, but your Win7 setup works just fine.


Anyway, if you're using fast startup, disable it and see if things automagically (and paradoxically) start faster.


Check the windows event viewer (Windows Key + X + V) to see what's stalling, if anything. My go-to guess would be a USB device you don't always have connected.