Well I'm not sure, My degrees are in Physics, with strong experimental experience (making and evaluating experiments) as well as an MBA in Prdn Mgmt with courses in "Decision Making In Conditions of Uncertainty" .... put to work as a main occupation as inventor having to organize and deal with such conditions in factories in China. Further, my earliest first "real" job evolved into being a kind of in-house consultant at General Dynamics, set onto tasks no one would or could handle. I had 3 mainframe programmers working for me, also wrote my own code; my Danish wife then became a code-writing group leader at MS/Redmond in Testing with 40 men working for her (I helped her through university with "C++ Forever").
The computer lock-ups occurred with or without browsers operating, with various versions of the browsers, with Defender doing only Periodic Scanning or totally disabled, and with System Restore having Kaspersky "Self Defense" disabled (stops certain changes to system otherwise).
The biggest and most significant factor (with sooooo many variables) seemed to be running TIME and how much was going on with the CPU (and memory use) and with how fast certain versions of programs were operating. When I first installed x64 Firefox, I got the impression it was going too fast for the x64 HP 840 G2 system (using a new Samsung 500GB SSD, which I tested just before the 2nd refresh now and found to be "PERFECT"). And when the lockups were prevalent (sometimes once an hour or less), WinX v. 1703 + my nice, otherwise pretty fast PC would make lots of "attention: I am working" sounds (different tone groups for different programs and actions).
MS tricked me into installing 1703 by not clearly identifying it and I am sure there were and still are many bugs and compatibility issues. Even Firefox is "officially" labeling various apps as "Legacy" indicating that new code is currently being developed by the app developers to handle the rapidly evolving issues caused by MS "improvements" as well as other software being similarly "improved".
To me this becomes a good example of Chaos Theory in full action, with various apps and things making the combined crazy system "going up to a higher order of chaos"
Anyway, last night (9 hours of non-sleep) for the SECOND time I refreshed v. 1703 and re-installed all the programs (Firefox, Chrome, Kaspersky KIS 16! [not 17 or 18], Mobile Partner [Internet access], Classic Shell, Audacity, Ransomfree and Skype), various apps incl. HP Support Assistant which updated more than 6 drivers, though they'd been already updated before the 2nd refresh. There was a LOT going on with the downloads, etc., and during the first hour of re-installation with 2 browsers, MS Windows Update and HP downloading like mad, there was one lockup and for the first time in a month Firefox (now x86 which uses less memory and is slightly slower and thus not "pushing" the CPU so much) Firefox did what it was supposed to: instead of hanging the entire computer, it simply crashed, made a crash report and re-started, leaving me still in active control of the rest of the computer. During the previous lockups which had to be escaped in the only way possible by holding down the on/off switch, when problem-free restarting, Firefox usually returned to what it was doing before the hang (but with no crash-report option).
After the initial first-hour of multiple downloads and re-installations .... in over 12 hours of constant use, no real problems and not so much "I'm working" notification sounds from 1703
so far so good
