Task Host Preventing Shutdown
Dec 27, 2015After using W10 for a few weeks I'm suddenly getting a message when trying to Power Off:
Task Host Windows is stopping background tasks (Microsoft Windowsdevice directory client register userdevice)....
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Recently I am getting notification that my memory is low, close some application to free the memory. But I wasn't running any high memory consuming programs. Then I looked into my Task manager and got this :
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ASmedia USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller (3 of the listed)
and
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all had exclamation points in front of them.
I click on them and it is giving me a code 48
which is windows is blocking the driver from starting because it has known issues with windows.
NOW it was working FINE until I rebooted the computer. It has done this TWO times.
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I try to uninstall the driver and let windows install it again... same results as above.. it just gets the exclamation mark again immediately.
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How are manufacturers this unprepared for a OS launch?
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Though Win10 is the first O.S. to give me this error, the Microsoft support forums indicate that it's been fairly annoying to Windows 7 users back to 2010. Also, Microsoft support employees just give vague general tips for trying to nail down the cause.
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