Ok - The system restore managed to reinstall the AMD Radeon R7 M260 drivers from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (not amd or toshiba - I have no idea where I could've gotten these drivers from...).
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Ahh, it's ok...

Lufthansa have gone on strike AGAIN, so - for the 2nd time this week - my flight is cancelled.

At least this gives me more time to fix this issue. Cloud. Silver lining. Etc...
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in case you can't tell - I AM PANICKING MY ASS OFF HERE!!!

why does this stuff always happen at the last moment before a 24 hour journey into the middle of nowhere, where you have to rely on a...

I just noticed in system restore, that the display adaptors that were installed previously were nothing to do with ATI or Catalyst Control Centre, but were from somewhere called "microsolutions"......

Hi!!!

Please can anyone help me??

I am due to fly out for 3 months to south america in a few hours.
My laptop broke (I am a graphic artist and use adobe software a lot) - the insurance company...

Ah! it is called refresh!

Looks like I need the get the installation media downloaded again - removed windows.old a while ago...
Thanks for the link! And a heads-up! :)

yeah, and it is not working any more ;`(

I will read more about the reset recovery thing, and see what it will change.
In the middle of a big project with lots of files and folders on the...

Yeah, maybe it is bad programming...
I will scan for malware, thanks for the reminder :)

I found...

If windows photo viewer is open (windows host process rundll32), the folders do not double...

Yes.

But, you see - that's the thing. It wasn't a shortcut that was on the desktop!
It was another desktop in the the desktop, in a folder, with a path c:\users\pete\desktop\desktop... Which is...

Ok... Well - when signing into another user account, windows operates normally (better, in fact) and - after giving the account access to the files that cause the other user account to open twice......

It sure is only folders from the desktop folder in windows explorer, not off the desktop itself.

It's also only sometimes! And sometimes it will be normal after the double windows are closed, and...

It's only happening on folders that are on the desktop, when accessed using explorer.

The other day, I noticed that there was a "my desktop" icon on the desktop. It was what appeared to be the...

I think you are right, and that it was over-stressed...

Perhaps I have given it brain damage now! Something is wrong with windows explorer!

Poor computer, I didn't mean to work you to death :`(

Yeah, something is weird... I goto view, folder options, view tab, and "launch new folder as a separate process" is UNticked... That means it ought to keep opening them in the same window, like...

Oh dear... Thanks CountMike.

Hello,

I have noticed a rather irritating problem when using windows explorer, in particular - to search files using the search box.

When I open a folder in my computer, it opens twice whether...

hehe, last night - i was rendering a video while playing it in RAM preview in after effects, while copying large objects between some heavy photoshop files and... the machine crashed...

(felt it...

Are you using Chrome..? Or Intel rapid store tech? :p

I think you might be right, axe0!

The machine hasn't died in several days since I disabled all those services :)

I've not used chrome since, either - since it crashed often and messed up the...

I'm not satisfied with there only being no BSOD!

I need to know why they were happening and exactly what caused them! For science, dammit!! :p

Forgot to mention that I also stopped all the intel services running at the same time as removing chrome and all the nvidia software.

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There has not been a crash since doing any of this -...

roger - it bsod'd just now opening it to reply to the email - nvidia.dll again.

All nvidia software and driver related stuff is removed other than the driver and physX software (clean installs...

I will do this when the computer will load windows :`(

It is bsod on startup with netbt.sys error.

ok, it is working - here is the zip.

While making the zip - the screen went black and then...

I've noticed that there are a couple of programmes that I use regularly that always seem to precede the crash sequences.

One is google chrome - lately this has been crashing often with "out of...

to summarise, here are the tests and steps we have performed so far:

Removed Mijxfilt.dll and dtlitescsibus.dll.
Seatools
Memtest+86, 8+ passes
sfc
chkdsk
updated chipset and realtek lan...