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Sometimes when I save a fairly large image or play with multilight levels on it or mess around with scattering I notice Maxwell 'stops responding.' It even says so in the task manager.

I've noticed, however, that the warning is often a false alarm, and if I am patient, and don't give up and kill the process, that Maxwell eventually finishes the task and returns to normal.

Any way to suppress that warning from the OS - except in the rare cases where it really is warranted?

No, that's something that Windows does to avoid the old situation where you had a window which was completely unresponsive to input (by completely, I mean the whole window, as opposed to just its contents). While a window is in the state that you describe, Windows swaps it out with a special temporary window that's named 'Application (Not Responding)', which you can drag, minimize, maximize, or attempt to close -- all things which were not possible to do otherwise.

Ok, well, I guess that's good.

I killed a lot of non-responsive Maxwells in the meantime until I figured out they were just slow but not dead, though.