I believe my wallet is dying due to dust...I try to click on anything - "send/settings/transactions" with it and it always goes to "not responding".
Is there anything I can do?
Start the wallet with "-reservebalance 999999" which stops it from staking. Combine your (smaller) blocks via coin control, and then from console do "reservebalance 0"
Forgot about this...
I have Win 8. And when I start the exe from the command prompt with reserve balance it doesn't appear to help/do anything...