W7 problems, frozen programs, crashing programs

[Charlie98]

RE: DESK in sig below.

Past two weeks I've been having some problems with my PC... starting with mouse commands. Sometimes I'll have to click 4,5, 6 times to get something to respond, and, sometimes when I click on a link (like here in the AT forums) the link will turn blue (selected) but it won't navigate (the refresh button doesn't show any activity.) Lately, though, some of my programs... Solitaire, Google Earth, for example... will crash or just lock up.

I cleaned up the OS drive, installed the new NVidia driver, uninstalled some bloat (Adobe, etc) and I'm still having problems. I'm on the verge of doing a W7 repair (with OS disk) but thought I would see if anyone could come up with anything else before I do that.

I have uninstalled/not installed some of the W10 MS updates (I'm not upgrading this PC,) so I don't know if that has something to do with it...

 

[inf1nity]

Might not be the solution you were hoping for, but when I have problems like this I just format C: and re-install Windows..

 

[Charlie98]

Might not be the solution you were hoping for, but when I have problems like this I just format C: and re-install Windows..

No, I have a backup (fresh, just updated) copy of W7 on another SSD, it's a bit of a pain having to reregister all the programs (like QuickBooks) so if I can salvage this copy it would make things a bit simpler.

 

[inf1nity]

Try cleaning your registry and other junk with CCleaner..

 

[Ketchup]

Tried a different mouse?
Uninstall recent software?
Malware scan?
Any blue screens?

 

[Steltek]

Have you run the sfc /scannow command from an elevated command prompt to check for system file corruption, followed by a chkdsk /f session to check for file corruption?

 

[Charlie98]

Have you run the sfc /scannow command from an elevated command prompt to check for system file corruption, followed by a chkdsk /f session to check for file corruption?

That was interesting... it found corrupt files. Researching the log entries I found one of the MS updates was regularly corrupting files... uninstalled the update and no more corrupt files. 😀 (KB3022345) That's one of the W10 upgrade updates and I thought I had already uninstalled it... 😡

I don't work from the command prompt very often, but I'll have to remember that one. Thanks!

 

[Ketchup]

Nice!

 

[Charlie98]

Nice!

Jury is still out... IE crashed on me a few minutes ago, but scannow isn't finding any corrupt files anymore. I'll have to try Google Earth when I get home from work... that'll bring it to it's knees if anything will. :hmm: