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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_perf/a-critical-error-has-occurred-in-the-shell/ffa743a6-5c16-4ff4-b7a4-ea287bf4456b

I am pretty sure I found the culprit here. If you go to the control panel, scheduled tasks you will find two tasks in the Microsoft tree under MemoryDiagnostic

Both have a condition set if idle for 10 minutes and are triggered off several different events. Once I disabled both of these tasks I have seen no more of this error.

Now, the evidence is if I triggered these tasks manually I got the error immediately so I am 95% sure this is the culprit. Question is, what are these MemoryDiagnostic tasks for?

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