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[cloud9999]

Hi, I have a Win7 64bit partition, it was brand new install couple weeks ago. So at first it's good, but after a couple of days I start getting programs to crash randomly during startup (when all the installed programs are loading), randomly as in, if they crashed, I did a reboot and eventually they would all load OK. Until now. Im getting a crash on the Catalyst Control Centre (CLI.exe), Skype is also crashing when I try to log in, MBAM crashes as well, explorer.exe also crashes sometimes at startup, sometimes the sound driver doesn't load... it's a mess.

I have run MBAM with no results besides some false positives. I have Comodo Firewall running. I don't get why this is happening. I also ran the ram memory check program that comes with Windows 7 and it didn't detect anything. Please help.

[Lee]

 First off, I would advise to get rid of the"techy" Comodo firerwall (might be contibuting to your problems), as W7 has an excellent firewall and you don't need two of them.

[Ztruker]

Sounds a lot like a memory problem.
 
Download Memtest86+ (you want the 2nd one Download - Pre-Compiled Bootable ISO (.zip)). Unzip it then create a CD from the iso file using your CD burning software. There is a good freeware burner called ImgBurn which will do this easily.

DO NOT burn the .iso file directly to CD. It must be used as input to a program that knows what to do with it, like the one I mentioned above.

You can do this on any computer that has a working CD Burner.

You can also use a Flash drive instead of a CD.

Download - Auto-installer for USB Key (Win 9x/2k/xp/7) *NEW!*.
Unzip and run Memtest86+ USB Installer.exe.
It will format the flash drive if you tell it to. I used a small, 16MB flash drive and it had 8.5GB left when done.

Boot the CD or Flash drive and run Memtest86+ for at least 3 complete passes unless it shows errors sooner than that. An overnight run is even better.

[cloud9999]

Hi,  I have been some research, i've noticed lately explorer.exe goes so high in CPU usage, also some other processes take practically exact amounts of CPU space without little variation, for example right now I have dllhost.exe, rundll32.exe and searchfilterhost.exe using 25% CPU each one, then explorer sometimes goes ridiculously high and I have to close it. My PC is becoming worse by the day. With process explorer, I saw in explorer.exe in "Threads": shlwapi.dll was the one taking the CPU load. I will run the memtest. I ran the default mem test program that comes with Windows a while a go and nothing was found.

[cloud9999]

Hi, btw none of the high CPU usage stuff happens in safe mode.

[Lee]

If safe mode is OK your hardware sounds fine.

 

Time to head to The Pit and run an Overdrive test:

 

You must use Internet Explorer as it needs to install an ActiveX program.

 

Note: Vista/Windows 7 users with UAC must first Right-click IE - Select "Run as Administrator"

If you haven't already registered, Click on  - Sign up FREE! (top left-hand "user login").

 

1.Register and create a password.
2. Accept the ActiveX component to allow your machine to run the Full Tests.

 

Registering and accepting the ActiveX is both SAFE and FREE.

 

The Full Tests take less than 5 minutes for most machines.
Once you have your Results, please post the URL (the http:// address) back here into this thread for tech. review.

 

Vista/Windows 7 users, please close your instance of IE "Running as Administrator" after you are finished reviewing your Results.

 

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If you know that you are susceptible to photo driven seizure, please look away from your screen during the Video Adapter testing sequence

 

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Edited by Lee, 25 June 2014 - 05:23 PM.