It's usually looking for known software conflicts or missing drivers/codecs.
Needless to say, most reasons your program will crash have nothing to do with this. It will often search interminably, to the point of causing a bluescreen.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I figured it was something like that.
It's one of those things that's demonstrated itself to be so unreliable that I always just click "Cancel" instead of letting it waste my time.
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this is bad and i need to pay more attention to things
hard to believe, i know.