Thesk wrote:
well i guess i was wrong about that, that Schannel was the cause of my freezes.
i've all those things you've pointed out, and that din't help.
my next question is, What is Schannel anyway? and what is a TLS connection ? and what application (s) is it related to ?
i'm sorry for all the questions, but i can't sort out all information google gives me about Schannel. the things i read about it is complicated stuff and there's so much information of it written in technical English that i have a very hard time to understand.
Cheers !
You know how sometimes you go to HTTP websites, and sometimes HTTPS websites?
HTTP = Clear text (anyone between you and the website can read your information, basically)
HTTPS = Encrypted traffic, meaning just about no one can read it (except NSA and such)
The S in HTTPS stands for secure (or maybe it was SSL, whatever) and means that the connection is using SSL/TLS (encryption, basically).
Loads of applications use it today, and SChannel seems to provide that service in Windows.
In your case it seems that a certificate that SChannel has access to, has expired, for whatever reason.
It's hard to know exactly which application is responsible, but you could try and to what the "server guides" tell you and see if you can find any expired certificates.
If you want to get a bit more technical in trying to solve the issue, you could install Wireshark and look at the traffic.
You could then try to time the Wireshark log with the Event log and try to identify what IP is being connected to (may or may not work, not sure exactly how SChannel works).
Did you do the registry scan with CCleaner?
That usually clears up a lot of mistakes.
And if possible I would also try to remove old unused applications on the machine (and then run the CCleaner clean and registry scan again to remove anything left behind).
Other than that, I'm not sure ... worst case scenario I guess you would have to reinstall to see if that solves the problem.