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Windows made a critical update on the 10th, and since then the computer has been freezing and playing silly buggers, the xp is fine by the way.

Anyway today it froze and I had to turn it of electrically, after turning it back on it wouldn't boot and asked for the boot disc, instead I stuck the recovery disc I made and booted from that, re-building the drive.

Been fine since, fingers crossed.

Any clues.

I assume the recovery disk was made before you did the critical update?

If that was the case then you've rebooted your machine to how it was BEFORE the critical update was installed.

If the recovery disk was made AFTER the critical update then

I had a critical update over a week ago and it turned out to be several Malware/spyware. Not sure if yours is the same but i had to do a recovery to a time before it happened and even then it still had 4 of the critters in there!

Just crashed again

Got an error message this time.

A processor thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated. flollowed by lots of numbers.

Got a feeling this may be linked to Adobe reader and flash player again.

is it crashing with a blue screen or not?

if it is, there should be a string of numbers or letters about 25-30 long, or a shorter error code.

Write this down and give it a google, results should bring up help on the net.

what a pain but you may have to do a clean install

Playing at the moment trying different things, and want to avoid a install if possible as the drives are massive and backing it up would be a nightmare.

Computer is running fine then crashes after an hour plus.

Nearest I've found is a corrupt program thats lost something, for example I had to re-install Chrome

Have you checked the processor fan and airways? May be an overheating issue.

the exception code 0xc0000010 = status_invalid_device_request

The likely cause is your SSD

Haven't done too much playing yet as busy with a meeting tomorrow.

Thursday I'm going to wipe Adobe flash and reader and install an older version.

May wipe firefox and re-install that as well.

thescruff wrote:
Windows made a critical update on the 10th, and since then the computer has been freezing and playing silly buggers, the xp is fine by the way.

I've got some updates for XP waiting to be installed this morning. (and Adobe has been pestering me to update for a few days now)

So before I allow them in can I just check that it's a different Windows system that you're having problems with?

Yes I'm talking windows 7.

On a side note every time something goes wrong the first thing I look at is Adobe.

thescruff wrote:Yes I'm talking windows 7.

On a side note every time something goes wrong the first thing I look at is Adobe.

Cheers Scruffy, I will update away, with gay abandon, not too gay of course, the Adobe can still wait.

Windows have just made another update, could be a patch.

May leave it on to see whether it crashes again.