Windows 11 & Spinning Circle of Death

[mwittl]

Well, I went and did it...updated to Windows 11 last month and am regretting my decision. I now frequently get the spinning circle of death trying to move through menus. It's not all the time and I can't seem to get a handle on when/why it occurs but I definately did not see this under Windows 10. Anyone else experiencing this? Thoughts?

[sic0048]

All menus, or just when browsing recordings?

I will say that I've had a situation when bad recordings caused the system to freeze (spinning wheel) anytime I went into a listing of recordings that had even a single bad recording in it.

For example, if I had a single corrupted recordings of "FBI" - anytime I browsed the list of FBI shows and that corrupted file was showing on screen in the list of shows, the system would freeze. I could browse other sets of recordings just fine however. The problem really occurs when you have multiple bad recordings across various shows. It seemed random when the system freezes or not, but it was actually very consistent and I finally figured it out and removed the bad recordings. I haven't had a problem with freezing since.

[mwittl]

I hear about it from the wife when she goes to either 'Recordings' or 'Videos'. No bad recordings. After a reboot....everything works fine. If it was a bad recording, it would still give the spinning death wheel. Can't figure this one out.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by mwittl

I hear about it from the wife when she goes to either 'Recordings' or 'Videos'. No bad recordings. After a reboot....everything works fine. If it was a bad recording, it would still give the spinning death wheel. Can't figure this one out.

If Possible, can you up the Java Heap size ?

[Tiki]

Do you have your hard drives set to spin down after a period of inactivity in the Windows Power settings? If so, you will get spinning circles when you try to move through the recordings lists.