PC Workman v1.8.2 is live, now on the Microsoft Store and everywhere else.
Before pushing a new build to the Store, I do not just click around and call it tested. This weekend I ran PC Workman through the scenarios that actually hurt a machine: CPU pinned at 100%, RAM under real pressure, a throttling laptop, hours-long sessions, and switching pages as fast as I could.
One of them caught something serious on my own machine: after a while under load, a total freeze. White screen, dead desktop, restart to recover. Nobody reported it. I found it myself before it ever reached a user, which is exactly the point of testing this way.
Now it does, at the lowest level, so every optimization path is safe at once. Full autopsy on Wednesday.
What v1.8.2 ships
- The freeze fix: one guard that protects the OS and the app from itself.
- Learning that works on every machine, not just ones running extra sensors.
- Store installs that can finally remember (writable-path fix).
- Optional "Run as administrator" at startup.
- Scaling fixes for small screens and 125% laptops.
A monitor that can freeze the computer it is monitoring is not a monitor. As of today, it does not.