2016 Alienware 17(R4) usually crashes several times per day (unfortunately windows minidump only had 4 files). Crashes usually occur while I'm gaming (world of warcraft), yet it also crashes while...

two new crashes since post:
On Tue 10/18/2016 22:33:14 GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\101816-24953-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module:...

My Alienware 18 was my backup computer until my primary computer died. Now that it is my primary computer I have experienced frequent BSODs. I use this computer primarily for gaming (Warcraft). To...

5 days have elapsed since my last crash. Driver Verifier has been running for 2 days and I have not experienced any crashes. I'm going to disable Driver Verifier and mark this thread as solved.
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Activated Driver Verifier. Will update as soon as anything happens.

I hoped to point out that I had already applied Axe0's solution concerning Bitdefender two weeks ago when I learned of the same solution from another forum. I thought it might be significant that it...

Which items should I disable in startup? All of them??
I just disabled:
eraser
google installer
snagit
spotify web helper

That leaves me with six processes active in startup:
bitdefender...

Every couple of days my Surface Pro 4, (6th Gen Intel Core i7, 512GB SSD, 16GB RAM) crashes due to a Driver_Power_State_Failure. (I changed the settings in CCleaner which wiped most of my minidump...

i created this account primarily to extend a huge thank you to you willsy! i have two laptops and upgraded from win 8.1 to 10 on only one of them so i could see how things went. everything seemed...