#Ocenaudio locks up when left idle Pc#
#Ocenaudio locks up when left idle windows#

Quick defrags don't work very well for this unfortunately. If it's always in the same folder or file, delete or move the program to another drive and try again. If you're having the same issue, manually defrag your drives and make note of where it is when it locks up.

#Ocenaudio locks up when left idle Pc#

It was a pain, but after a couple of defrag failures it was pretty apparent as the detailed view showed it was left it hanging in the same area each time.ĭeleted the game and my PC hasn't locked up since. The freeze was sudden enough that it was keeping anything from being logged as a crash or failure on any system monitor, there was no unusual hardware activity and there were no error messages, so I actually had to sit and watch for it, which took quite a while. The HDD itself also had plenty of space for a defrag operation, it's only about half full. Verifying the files on the game came up as them all being present, and the game ran fine if I tried to play it. So I went to a more advanced view and discovered it was always locking up when it reached the same folder, but not always on the exact same file. It was always freezing at around the same percentage. I noticed the Defragger was always locking up at a specific point once I tried to manually defrag after trying to individually defrag each of my drives again. It wasn't a virus or malware either because I was able to recreate the issue by defragging the drive with the game on it manually. None of them were catching anything wrong with anything on any of my drives. for each of my drives individually several times and it always came up clean and the scans ran fine. I did the usual, SFC, ScanDisk, DISM, etc. None of the various scans my PC could do were picking up that there was anything wrong with the file. It still tries to do disk maintenance anyway when the system is idle apparently, because I'm certain I disabled all scheduling and settings related to defrag and the issue still persisted.

The options are there to turn it off in the system menus, but it was still doing it anyway and locking up the PC in the process. It was still doing it even if I disabled defragging as a scheduled event.

#Ocenaudio locks up when left idle windows#

I don't think that turning off scheduling works with Windows 10. I have most of my Steam Folder in its own drive. It was in a game called Wreckfest, which is a driving sim game by Bugbear. Turns out it was a bad file in my Steam Folder causing defrag to freeze my PC.