Sabotage

[Brado78]

Hey Gang, Anyone else here thinking that Microsoft might be slowly sabotaging windows 7 forcing people to go to Win 10? I have been having some major issues with Win 7 for the past few months..

Thanks

 

[BonzaiDuck]

This was a mild conspiracy theory through 2015 and 1st half last year when there were major problems with Windows Update for Win 7. Most of us got through all of that, and MS changed their paradigm or model for monthly updates.

Perhaps you could fill us in on your hardware, and describe your problems. I've been through equal troubles with both Win 7 and Win 10. MS would probably wish that everyone would migrate, but they know better. They'll continue their support through 2020 or 2021.

Also -- have you checked your event logs? Made a note of errors and warnings, or tried to resolve them?

Oh . . . almost forgot. What antivirus security program do you use?

 

[Brado78]

The board is a GA G41MT (Gigabyte), Intel Pentium E5700 4gb Samsung DDR3 Ram. The operating system is on a Sandisk Ultra II. Lately windows has been freezing and hanging, error messages are popping up sometimes during shut down. Sometimes I plug in an external device and sometimes they are not recognized, The USB ports are 2.0 and it says 1.1. Firefox hangs and forces a reboot. I am using AVG Virus software

 

[JackMDS]

Something is wrong with your system and it has nothing to do with Microsoft.

As a first step you should boot your computer from a CD or Flash drive that is loaded with Boot Security/Cleaner scanner.

Example - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14210/security-essentials-download

 

[Brado78]

could this be sings of the dreaded motherboard failure?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

could this be sings of the dreaded motherboard failure?

I'll defer somewhat to JackMDS, since he recommends an obvious first step.

However. That's an LGA-775 Gigabyte motherboard. We built two Gigabyte systems with a similar model -- wait a minute -- three -- the third one was full ATX P45. Or EP45. Doesn't matter. All of those boards died after six to eight years -- the last one failed two months ago.

Maybe Jack would concur with this. After you've tested for malware infection, get something like HCI Memtest 64 downloaded on a different computer with ISO burned to CD or to USB following the instructions. Run that self-bootable CD on the subject LGA-775 system. If there are failures with RAM, it could still mean any of several things, including a motherboard or PSU gone south.

Troubleshooting is a sort of masochistic activity that I pursue feverishly to a point. But it is a matter of costs and benefits -- in time, in sweat, in trouble, and in dollars. I will only say that the Gigabyte system that died two months ago did not get much in that sort of attention. We "harvested" the Intel SSD, processor and RAM, and sent the motherboard, PSU and case to the county electronic recycler. My friend in Virginia will get the processor and RAM, and he knows they may be good, and then again not. I wouldn't even ask him for postage in that situation.