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		artemonster on Aug 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an... what do you do if you cannot launch it? because everything is frozen

no_time on Aug 21, 2023 | [–]

switch to another tty(ctrl+alt+(f1..f12)), log in and launch htop from there.

Unless you are dealing with a kernel panic, this will work.

gavinhoward on Aug 21, 2023 | [–]

What no_time said is the answer. Me personally, I always have it running so that I can see what is running.

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