Click on the Services tab and uncheck Background Intelligent Transfer Service to disable it. Go to Start -> Run (or Win+R) and type msconfig. Disable “ Background Intelligent Transfer Service“. If it says “Show icons for networked UPnP devices”, then it’s currently hidden and you don’t need to do anything.
Navigate to My Network Places and on the left pane click “ Hide icons for networked UPnP devices“. Hide Icons for Networked UPnP Devices (XP only) You can access it by going to the Network and Sharing Center -> “Change advanced sharing options” and choose “turn off network discovery” in your current profile.Ģ. Windows Vista and above have a similar function under a different name called network discovery. Click the View tab and uncheck “ Automatically search for network folders and printers” Open Control Panel and launch Folder Options.
Disable “ Automatically search for network folders and printers” Only try the suggestions below if there is no 100% CPU usage on your Task Manager when the taskbar freezes, they apply to all Windows versions unless stated.ġ. Some might work for you and some won’t because it depends on which settings, services or programs that are causing the taskbar and explorer to hang. Here is a list of suggestions we found that “could” solve the problem. This problem seems to have no cause which can be easily pinned down, and there’s a wealth of possible fixes out there. If anything apart from the System Idle Process is at a high percent of usage, you can simply kill it to see if the problem fixes itself. The easiest thing to do is simply launch Task Manager and look through the running process list for anything consuming large amounts of CPU resources. Usually after a period of seconds or maybe even minutes in the worst cases, everything unfreezes and you can access the taskbar and start button again. Unfortunately, when the taskbar freezes, the start button and Explorer will often freeze as well. The computer doesn’t hang completely, the desktop shortcuts work and you’re still able to launch programs from those shortcuts. A similar issue is related to the Windows taskbar that sometimes for no apparent reason, it can appear to completely freeze or hang. One frustrating problem is the Windows context menu hanging when you right click on a file or folder. With so many programs and services running in the background on modern computers, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise when something goes wrong and you get a problem.