Unstable system

Slartybart thanks for the concern. I had a different battle going on today dealing with doctors and insurance companies. Took most of my day up. I'd like to add to my initial post. I had thought it might be an issue with IE11. So I've begun the transition to using Edge, although I have also installed Firefox as well. In between phone calls and such, I was "doing Facebook". Didn't cash once, although I could see that I would briefly get a "Facebook.com is not responding" error, but it was rather short lived.

A note about fast boot in the bios settings. Reading what it does and what it does and does not load, I'm not sure if I can set that to disabled right now. My keyboard doesn't work, using a usb keyboard and mouse to operate laptop. I'll discuss that more in the hardware forum.

Few other things I forgot to mention in my first post. A few times just prior to crashing I would get a "memory full" message. So I thought I was over loading my system and shut down any extra Windows/Apps I might have open at the time. And while I don't use the laptop as a gaming platform, I do have one game I play on Steam called "Hearts of Iron III". This isn't a FPS game that doesn't require a high frame rate or such. But I did have the Radeon video card crash and that shut my system down too.

I am already running ccleaner. I would like to run that Windows 10 program that monitors system stability if anyone can tell me how to reload that. It's getting late for me today, so I wish to go over the first few posts, so I can get that ISO downloaded and burnt off. I do have a question about that though. It's about the key. I know I've the digital code floating around here someplace in my notebook, but I'd still like to have the key for Win8.1. Will that also work on my Office 2013 though? I know that Office 2016 just came out, and I'm going to see if Vocational Rehab will pay for an upgrade and training for me. I REALLY wish to become MOS certified so it's VERY important that I get this computer stable and keep it that way! At least until I can afford to replace it! Until I have the ISO done and I haven't had a crash for a week, then I'll close this thread.

As you'd guess I'm not working right now due to an injury. Budget is...well there really isn't a budget with no money. What other free tools can I use to maintain and monitor my system?

Windows 10 home
x64 based pc
AMD A-5000 processor
Bios ver. 1.5 rel. 1/27/2014 (need to double check that, one thing I do like about this computer is Toshiba has a rather good utility to keep drivers and the bios up to date.)

Well, so far 24 hours no crashes, and I was having IE crash several times a day with perhaps 1 total computer crash/shutdown a day per the Reliability log (Yes I found that on my own)

Okay, I had the bios mode written down, just forgot to post it. It's in UEFI mode. A bit more about my clean install. Taking advice from all those that have posted in this thread, I have made the switch from IE to Edge. Since I've done that my system has not locked up or crashed. There are only two warnings listed, "Windows Shell Experience Host" stopped working. I clicked on the "check for solution" and it couldn't find one.

Back to the clean install. So long as I'm not crashing, I'm not going to do it right away. I still want to create an ISO, for "just in case" situation. I don't have any thumb drives that are large enough to do an install. I do have plenty blank dvd's so I'm gonna read up on putting the ISO on that media. To do so I'll be using MS Edge to follow various links to do so. Since switching, I am pleased as I said before that I haven't crashed since the 26th. I don't know if it's just me getting use to a different web browser, or if it's a reliability issue or not. Just like IE11 occasionally still see a "Facebook not responding" error. At other times while either searching something via Bing or Google, and I'll get the same error. It doesn't last as long, but still is a concern of mine. Still other times when I click on a link while searching, checking email or reading Facebook. Nothing happens for a minute or so before the link appears.

Have you run malwarebytes anti malware? That would pick up anything that might be causing issues as well. Also have you made recovery disks - Toshiba should have an option to make manufacturer recovery disks on there somewhere. Usually takes 3 or 4 dvd's. That way you could always reinstall W8 from those, to original factory settings at some point if you wanted to. And if you didn't want to upgrade to Windows 10. It sounds like you have a lot of fix programs on there - my experience with running lots of fix programs is they can often cause more issues. So it does sound like you could do with a clean install. Did you say you'd already upgraded to W10 once and rolled back? (ie W10 is activated now). If so I think it would definitely be worth doing a clean install of Windows 10 as the others have shown above. I just burned a dvd of the ISO from the Microsoft website - the install is quick, there aren't that many updates to do either. But before you do, you need to have everything backed up - personal files backed up onto sd card or portable hard drive, manufacturer recovery disks made, and a system image and W8 repair disk made. So you can always get back to where you were (or better ).

With a clean install you will have a stable system. And a lot less hassle and programs that work well and no need for extra utilities.