Everything Causes Reboot!

[driz]

Second time this has happened, so not a fluke. When I double-click on Everything, my Win 11 desktop PC (MSI Pro B760 - 2023) immediately reboots itself! All open apps / work is lost. I've probably used Everything 20-30 times, but it's only happened twice, which is enough to warrant a forum post.

[void]

Sounds like a hardware issue.

Please try running a CPU and RAM stress test.



Options in Everything which might help:

Disable multi-threading:
Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:

/max_threads=1

Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
If successful, max_threads=1 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

This will limit Everything to one CPU, which will make your searches slower, but might help with system stability.



Disable icon shell extensions in Everything:

Copy and paste the following into your Everything search box:

/icon_shell_extensions=0

Press ENTER in your Everything search box.
If successful, icon_shell_extensions=0 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.



Move your Everything.db to another hard drive

Only an option if you have multiple drives:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Indexes tab on the left.
• To the right of Database location, Click Browse...
• Select a drive that is different to your C: drive and click OK.
• Click OK.

Please check your C: drive for errors:

• Please backup anything important on your drive before checking it for errors.
• In Windows Explorer, right click your C: drive and click Properties.
• Click the Tools tab.
• Click Check now...
• Click Start
• If prompted to schedule a scan on the next restart, click Yes.

Check the Event Viewer (Start -> eventvwr) under Windows Logs -> System for a possible reboot reason.