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Monday, October 10, 2016 4:41 PM

This pops up when I wake up my PC.   There is a long list of what I presume are possible reasons, but which make no sense.  The window box information cannot be copied so I haven't posted it.

There is a reference to invoking JIT debugging.  A search points to something in Visual Studio, which I do not have on my PC.

It seems if I somehow disable it or enable it, this popup will go away and not return.  Lovely!  Just how do I do that?  While there are .NET Framework in my program list in Control Panel, I have no clue which one is the correct one to attempt to open/repair/etc.

Any suggestions?

I'm running Windows 10, 64 bit.  I do not program nor develop applications.

Thanks.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2016 6:53 AM âś…Answered

Hi chuckwl,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

Please use verification tool to make sure .NET Framework installed without problem:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/10/13/8999004.aspx

If it found any corrupted, you can use the .NET Framework Repair Tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30135 to repair it.

.NET Framework is reporting the issue for you but it may not be the cause.

Meanwhile, you need to check if issue persists in clean boot.

Please have a try with the following steps to perform a clean boot in Windows 10:

  1. From Start, search for msconfig.
  2. Select System Configuration from the search results.
  3. On the Services tab of the System Configuration dialog box, tap or click to select the Hide all Microsoft services check box, and then tap or click Disable all.
  4. On the Startup tab of the System Configuration dialog box, tap or click Open Task Manager.
  5. On the Startup tab in Task Manager, for each startup item, select the item and then click Disable.
  6. Close Task Manager.
  7. On the Startup tab of the System Configuration dialog box, tap or click OK, and then restart the computer.

After the computer restart in clean boot, you need to check if the error will occur.

If the error message does not occur in clean boot, your problem is related to a program or a service which automatically run when your computer boots up. You can follow the steps here to find the program: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ph/kb/929135

If the issue still persists, could you please share some screenshots about the error there?

Best regards,

Joyce