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Offline Maxaira

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Bluescreen shut down
« on: February 10, 2014, 08:41:59 am »
Within the last week windows 7, home edition 64 has been randomly shutting down with a bluescreen saying in effect that Windows has detected an error that might harm the computer.  It shuts down and reboots and will go several hours before it happens again.  I have run all my maintenance and malware programs to no avail.  Is there something I'm missing?  Thanks.

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Re: Bluescreen shut down
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2014, 11:41:26 am »
I use this program
http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed

It will analyze the crash dump file and tell you what might have caused the blue screen, that is the first step :-)

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Re: Bluescreen shut down
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2014, 01:47:24 pm »
Hirens boot disc has a program called Blue Screen View which will tell you what caused the error screen.

Seems like the same solution Shane suggested.  Matter of taste, I guess. :)