Crashing Programs (Win 7)

[BristolBrick]

I was playing warthunder. Warthunder crashed. Warthunder would not close. Taskmanager could not close warthunder. Cmd.exe could not close warthunder. I hold the power button. (So that firefox can reopen my tabs) The computer turns off. I turn the computer on. It checks 34mb of disk. It freezes after doing this. I hard reset again. I turn computer on. Computer gets to satrting windows for 5 minutes until I hard reset again. I turn on computer. Computer boots up. Firefox restores some random tabs I had open from last month. I run the warthunder uninstall. It opens launcher. Both crash. I open taskmanager to stop them, it can't and then it crashes. I open taskmanager to close taskmanager. It does this, I then try again to close the uninstall, it can't.

 

On top of this yesterday the start button froze and had to end process.

[ProjectBox153]

Sounds like Windows is fucked. I'd do a clean install (and move to 10).

[BristolBrick]

6 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

-snip- (and move to 10).

Hell no! I went ten for 6 weeks. Those were crappy 6 weeks. I'll use XP or Linux or even 98 before I'll ever use 10! 10 is a horrible spying ugly slow abortion of an OS, which uses double the disk space it should, even if I strip out all of the shit it lets me! I don't want flipping edge or cortana, I want an OS which won't spy on me, won't use lots of disk space for absurd nonsense nobody wants, won't force install updates that break my stuff and for it to run stuff. That's about all I want. I want it to run programs, and that's it.

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, BristolBrick said:

Hell no! I went ten for 6 weeks. Those were crappy 6 weeks. I'll use XP or Linux or even 98 before I'll ever use 10! 10 is a horrible spying ugly slow and big abortion of an OS.

OK, then maybe just a reinstallation of 7?

[BristolBrick]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

OK, then maybe just a reinstallation of 7?

That seems much more likely.

[Ithanul]

Probably best to just do a fresh install.  Best bet, if you have a spare computer, build a generic VM and build an image within it and have all updates installed.  Capture the image and apply it to the computer having the issue.  Keep the image as back up in case a similar issue shows up again.  Saves a whole lot of time instead of waiting for the updates to download and install on a fresh install.

 

Though, if you using W7, some updates have the telemetry.  So, staying on W7 does not keep you away from that issue.  Unless you want to take the painful time to double check through every update.

[Tabs]

If you DO decide to reinstall Windows 7 (either on another machine or directly), for the love of god make sure you manually download and install KB3065987, IE11 Standalone, and .Net 4.5.2 *before* checking for updates. These require SP1, so make sure your base image includes SP1, or install SP1 first from here.

 

If you don't, you'll be there for hours trying to search for updates, and since you have to go through the process multiple times to get updated completely to date, this could easily take the better part of a weekend to do.

 

However - for what it's worth - I'd recommend doing a check of your hard disk and ram. The failures you're experiencing could easily indicate that your system integrity has been compromised due to write failures or general data corruption. If this is the case, reinstalling may simply postpone further problems.

[BristolBrick]

18 minutes ago, Ithanul said:

Probably best to just do a fresh install.  Best bet, if you have a spare computer, build a generic VM and build an image within it and have all updates installed.  Capture the image and apply it to the computer having the issue.  Keep the image as back up in case a similar issue shows up again.  Saves a whole lot of time instead of waiting for the updates to download and install on a fresh install.

 

Though, if you using W7, some updates have the telemetry.  So, staying on W7 does not keep you away from that issue.  Unless you want to take the painful time to double check through every update.

Or I could install no updates..... (I know it is risky, but I've been doing that for a while now.)

[Ithanul]

26 minutes ago, BristolBrick said:

Or I could install no updates..... (I know it is risky, but I've been doing that for a while now.)

At that point, you better off just not even using Windows.  Or, have one hell of a firewall and good browser habits along with script blockers.

[BristolBrick]

3 hours ago, Ithanul said:

At that point, you better off just not even using Windows.  Or, have one hell of a firewall and good browser habits along with script blockers.

That's what I do.