Hi, hopefully someone can help me out here - as, despite having this particular Win 8.1 machine for a few years now, I've never come across this before...

After my machine recently crashed (it never seems to last more than a dozen or so days, before the pagefile.sys starts going crazy, using up 100% of disc activity for very long periods), I rebooted it - only to find that, despite in the WCG agent (ver 7.14.2) all the WU's being set to run uninterrupted, showing as 'Running' and using the web based preferences - thus, they haven't changed recently, in the Windows Task Manager, there's hardly any CPU being used for crunching - and against each of the WCG tasks it's got 'Suspended' status against it.

Since my computer crashed, I've rebooted it (apparently, cleanly) - and still the same happens, in the Task Manager | Details tab, it's showing 'Suspended', with only ~1 second of 'active' processing every minute - thus, the time it'd take to crunch 1 WU will be astronomical. I've stopped/restarted the WCG agent, stopped/killed/abended separate WU's, and fresh WU's kick in - again, dropping into this 'suspended' status cycle after starting.

I haven't changed any settings, and this computer has been crunching away merrily practically ever since I bought it with no issues (over 5 years ago), thus, 'something happened' either when it crashed or restarted. There's plenty of spare memory (4.6GB in use out of the 8Gig available), the CPU is trickling along at ~18% and the disc actibity is negligable. I can certainly provide my computer specs if people think that coud be the issue - but, as it was averaging around (before tihs started happening), 3 CPU days/day, I don't think that'll be behind this situation. My bet, is software related, but unfortunately, I've never really been impressed with Win 8.1 - and I'm not keen on upgrading to Win 10, where Microsoft impose software upgrades on their timescales.

Any clues anyone?