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Programs won't run

Matthias2556
By Matthias2556
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so yesterday, I installed a few windows updates and shut down my pc for the night. everything was working before that

this morning, I booted up my pc, and nothing will work. Windows Live Movie Maker, windows media player, iTunes, Steam, nothing. well, theres a few exceptions, Blender, chrome, and File  Explorer are working, but none of those other programs will run. in the case of iTunes, i double click the taskbar shortcut, and nothing happens. for steam, windows media player, and movie maker, i open them, and they immediately crash and say "this program has stopped working". Ive tried restarting several times, and that has done nothing. i really just dont understand why this is happening.

 

is anyone else having these kind of problems? could it be a problem with the most recent windows update? im running windows 7 home premium 64-bit btw.

 

any help would be much appreciated

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this thought just occured to me, it could be a problem with my grpahics drivers, thos were updated in the windows update as well, and since the problems im having involve the gpu, its possible the drivers are outdated or something. ill try re-installing from the AMD website

AMD FX 8350 8-Core CPU (Stock 4GHz) | Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 | (Rev. 4.0) | 8GB 1600MHz HyperX Fury | AMD R9 270 (MSI Gaming OC Edition) | NZXT H440 (White) | Kingston 120GB SSDnow V300 | Seagate Barracuda 1TB (7200 RPM) | Corsair RM750m 750w Fully Modular Power Supply

Dell 23.6-Inch 1080p 60hz IPS Display | Corsair H100i AIO Liquid Cooler | Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard | Logitech G502 Proteus Core | iSymphony Wireless Stereo Speakers | Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

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Yep, that fixed it. wierd.

i guess that makes this a completely useless thread, since i ended up figuring it out on my own. lol :P

AMD FX 8350 8-Core CPU (Stock 4GHz) | Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 | (Rev. 4.0) | 8GB 1600MHz HyperX Fury | AMD R9 270 (MSI Gaming OC Edition) | NZXT H440 (White) | Kingston 120GB SSDnow V300 | Seagate Barracuda 1TB (7200 RPM) | Corsair RM750m 750w Fully Modular Power Supply

Dell 23.6-Inch 1080p 60hz IPS Display | Corsair H100i AIO Liquid Cooler | Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard | Logitech G502 Proteus Core | iSymphony Wireless Stereo Speakers | Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

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