What "Not Responding" Really Is — How Windows Decides an App Has Hung, and How to Design Apps That Don't (archived 2026-09-08)
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Abstract
Windows marks a window Not Responding after 5 seconds without message retrieval and shows a ghost window: the check, hang causes, UI-thread design, and investigation. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/windows-app-not-responding-hang-mechanism/, as published on 2026-09-08. The live article is maintained and may change after this date. First published 2026-08-22.
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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-09-08
Authors: Go Komura
Institutions: Fujikura (United States)