[WorksForMe] VirtualBox suddenly becomes unclickable

[grilo]

Hi!

I'm running into some weird problem...

Sometime after the program is opened, it becomes unclickabe.

Task Manager doesn't show it as "Not Responding".

I just can't click on any VirtualBox's buttons. I can drag its window, when I hover minimize, maximize and close window buttons, they light up. None of then works, minimize does.

And VirtuaBox becomes unclickable...

Also, it happens even before I can create any VM.

My specs:

Asus notebook, Windows 10 Home 64bit (up to date), i7-8750H, 8GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.

Regards!

[socratis]

Uninstall VirtualBox completely and install the latest version from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

[grilo]

Already did it. More than once...

Didn't solve the problem.

Is there anything than Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.0.4 that I need to remove to certainly do a complete uninstall?

[socratis]

I think it's a problem with your host to be honest. I thought of cleaning up the situation, but apparently that didn't help. The problem is that I have no suggestions for you, because having the VirtualBox Manager not responding with the get-go, is not something that I previously remember.

[grilo]

Is possible to run VirtualBox in "verbose" mode?

So I can see what is happening under the hood...

[socratis]

Not really, not unless you build it from source and you get the debug builds. That's the only way that I know of...

[grilo]

I took a look at source files, but I would like some help to build with debug.

How can I get this kind of help?

[socratis]

Two places that you should start looking:

• Board index ‹ General ‹ Howtos and Tutorials ‹ Building VirtualBox
• Board index ‹ VirtualBox OSE
• Technical documentation

You may find it lonely there...

[grilo]

I don't remember to be so pissed off and relieved at the same time

Today I started to download aaaall the (heavy) stuff needed to compile VirtualBox.

But then (I sincerely don't remember how) something gave me the idea to close ASUS GPU Tweak II (a app to monito.r GPU's load, voltage, clock etc).

BAM

VitualBox Manager AND Virtual Machine (a humble Ubuntu 16.04) are running smoth as f#@%

I can't believe that this was the problem...

Certainly a bad program from Asus.

Only to register, this is the application version and specs:

File Description: GPUTweak II
File Version: 1.9.3.0

That's it.

Thanks!

[socratis]

something gave me the idea to close ASUS GPU Tweak II

I've never installed any of those "utilities" from a vendor/OEM. In fact the first thing when I get a new computer is to wipe it out, just to clean all those value-added programs, which I personally consider as leeches that are sucking up resources for no apparent gain.

Thank you for the feedback and the solution, hope someone finds it useful in the future. Marking as [WorksForMe].