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I`m using Machete, very useful, low on sys resources and easy to use: http://www.machetesoft.com/

HI Darren If you have all what is listed in your signature, specially if you are working in a virtuall environment such as Sandboxie, you have Avast free, and Online Armor, IMHO all the rest is an overkill and unnecessary burden to system even if minimal now, it adds up with time...

Thank you Hazelnut, good to know there is such a site. Anyways, I`m at the point of considering if it worth's all the efforts and time spent.

Well, tried the power supply and it did not the right thing, so I`m back to the starting point. Looked at the mother board and bearing in mind I`m not an expert, I did not find anything peculiar.

Hi login123, I`m trying now a new PSU, hope this one solves the issue, I`m going to find it out soon enough

Thank you all for your replies, yesterday the freeze took place at a fresh start up, and I`ll have to start by eliminating options one by one, excluding the heating factor, as it also freeezes at a fresh start up. The first I`m trying now is the USB wireless adapter.

Hi I have one pentium 4 old machine that freezes a lot, mostly after one or two hours of work and some times even less, I took it to the tech that other than charging money and not solving the issue didn`t do a thing. After freezing it also refuses to restart and only after wait it is possible to boot. Any ideas? [Win xp sp3, 700RAM] Thanks

I thought I`d share it with you, the solution to this issue is [in the meantime-5 reboots, so far so good] : I disabled SSDP Discovery Service, and icons are back in town... for now.

Thanks for your reply Alan.

My system is as per my signature. I do not have other users, in fact I even disabled the secondary logon service.

Hi Two icons do not show in tray at star-up: 1.Sounds and audio devices and 2.Safely remove hardware. If I restart windows explorer right after start-up, they will always show up. Assuming this is a Win explorer`s issue, what can I do to fix it? Thanks

Thanks for the link nodles.

Hi I know it is necessary to keep al the previous netframework versions, but do I have to update all the versions or only the latest one? I`m asking that because yesterday I made a manual update for net framework 2 and it messed with the functioning of net framework 4.

Thanks for the input MikeW.

Had the same BSOD about three times in two months. I regularly defrag with Perf.disk, and scan for viruses with Avast. What drivers are you talking about?

Yes, and it reads as follows:The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000024 (0x001902fe, 0xb97e81d8, 0xb97e7ed4, 0x8054bfd2). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP Error code:1001

I think I was moving a sub folder from one folder to another, at same partition.

Sorry, I guess I was too brief, it was a random BSOD, no problems to access Windows, I did CHKDSK= no errors, no windows error reports prior to crash, I hope you get a better picture now.

This is what the program shows: 21263546.txt

Hi I got the BSOD and I`m attaching the dump file. Any help regarding the cause and the fix, will be appreciated.Thanks. Mini010112-01.zip

I`m having the suspicion that Firefox 8 made all the extra "Aerobic spinning workout" on my hard disk, I changed to Palemoon a Mozilla based engine and I can tell the big difference now.

Hi Did any of you here have any experience with: Smart driver updater? or even with the concept of updating old drivers with one program? is the procedure reliable or safe? [this particular program has backup option] Thanks

Thank you for the link Hazelnut, it is indeed event 1041, I`ve found a similar link a while ago and deleted this keys[not before Erunt backup], I`ll see now what happens.

Hi One step further, I have opened the Event Viewer showing the time of the crush, went to applications and noticed many entries with the ERROR tag next to it. In the Properties for the entry its says: 'Windows cannot query DllName registry entry for {CF7639F3-ABA2-41DB-97F2-81E2C5DBFC5D} and {7B849a69-220F-451E-B3FE-2CB811AF94AE} [in separate entries]and it will not be loaded. This is most likely caused by a faulty registration.' In the Properties for hyperlink[for both] it mentions the file userenv.dll, file version 5.1.2600.5512 After checking back in time, this same errors, keep repeating every day as I could go and that is back until 12/11/2011 I hope it makes a much clearer picture to the techies in this forum. Thanks.

You are probably talking about waucult.exe that more than once had to kill because it loaded so much on the system so it could not move, anyways I have the updating service set only to inform me if I have new updates, and if there are, I manually choose what updates to download , is that what you mean? or you totally disable the updating service and then you periodically check if any updates available at their site by yourself?