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I tried windows 10 for a few days and had quite a few problems, so decided
to do roll back to windows 7. Now I have windows crashing every half hour or so. The blue screen comes up and says - a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down (or something like that) no new hardware.........what could be the problem? should I try to reinstall windows 7? I have original 4 year old windows 7 install disk. Trying to write fast before machine crashes again, so I hope this makes sense |
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buckwheat wrote:
I tried windows 10 for a few days and had quite a few problems, so decided to do roll back to windows 7. Now I have windows crashing every half hour or so. The blue screen comes up and says - a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down (or something like that) no new hardware.........what could be the problem? should I try to reinstall windows 7? I have original 4 year old windows 7 install disk. Trying to write fast before machine crashes again, so I hope this makes sense The ideal situation, would have been a backup before doing this. When it says "Your Upgrade is Ready" or whatever, you'd back up both Win7 plus the downloaded folder full of stuff (install.win and install.esd stuff). Then, you could roll back at your leisure doing a bare metal restore with your backup software boot CD. As of now, you can: 1) Boot Win7 (crash or no crash) 2) Insert the Win7 DVD. 3) Run setup.exe off the Win7 DVD. 4) This will do an Upgrade/Repair install. Win7 does not support booting the media to do a Repair install. Thus, the instability of your OS is a *real* issue. 5) Try to finish install. There will be several reboots. While we could hope your instability is a corrupt file, it could also be something bad in the Registry, or even the presence of a rootkit. You may need to bail on this attempt and do a Clean install instead, if the Gods are not smiling upon you. 6) Find the redistributable SP1 update for Win7. This is in case your media is Win7 and not Win7SP1. You would need SP1 to qualify for Win10 Upgrade install. Or, you would need SP1 for Windows Update to feed you 200 more updates. See what a mess this is !!! Backups would have been *so* much easier. The last time I did a Win7, it cost me maybe five hours to tidy things up. Mine was a brand new Win7 I purchased and installed from scratch, and that's how long it takes to add Sp1 plus 200 updates. Now, if you *crash* during the installation (which is likely), then you can always boot from the Win7 DVD and do a Clean install. This *wipes* all the files on C:. So I hope you have... doh... backups. Make sure your bookmarks, your email database, are backed up. Note that some backup programs, the bare metal restore boot disc can do both backups and restores. So you don't need a running Windows OS to take care of your stuff. You backup the internal hard drive, to an external hard drive, for the assurance that if the internal drive dies (or as in this case, is somehow damaged), the external carries your "insurance policy". Paul |
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 23:16:48 +0000, buckwheat wrote:
I tried windows 10 for a few days and had quite a few problems, so decided to do roll back to windows 7. Now I have windows crashing every half hour or so. The blue screen comes up and says - a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down (or something like that) no new hardware.........what could be the problem? should I try to reinstall windows 7? I have original 4 year old windows 7 install disk. Trying to write fast before machine crashes again, so I hope this makes sense As unlikely as it seems, I'd check power supply and memory first. |
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"buckwheat" wrote in message
news I tried windows 10 for a few days and had quite a few problems, so decided to do roll back to windows 7. Now I have windows crashing every half hour or so. The blue screen comes up and says - a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down (or something like that) no new hardware.........what could be the problem? should I try to reinstall windows 7? I have original 4 year old windows 7 install disk. Trying to write fast before machine crashes again, so I hope this makes sense There's an app called Blue Screen View that might help you figure things out. Can you start in Sage Mode? http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html |
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