My windows vista (home premium 32bit) frequently crashes. I have very
little of an idea why this is happening. It may have been after i
downloaded a program, it would have been a legitimate program, as i try
and keep my laptop safe.

It crashes instantly seemingly randomly (though i have noticed that the
internet, whichever browser may be affecting it).
It can run for long periods without crashing, but gives no warning when
it is going to crash.
It has at least two different reasons for crashing, as I have set my
laptop to not instantly reset so that I can read the blue screen. One
has a line near the top of the screen driver_sqrl_error or something
similar. But they both have errors near the bottom of the blue screen
with combinations of numbers and letters. They mean nothing to me.
They seem to be to do with memory access, in that a file could not be
accessed. It does not tell me which one, or if it does, it is too
cryptic.

If this does not give you enough information, I probably have more info
if you need it.
Any help would be appreciated, else I must get it looked at, before I
lose important work.


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unknownalias

Hi, unknownalias.

has a line near the top of the screen driver_sqrl_error or something
similar. But they both have errors near the bottom of the blue screen

Please quote the Stop Code and all those hexadecimal numbers EXACTLY. You
wouldn't want salt in your coffee just because it is "something similar" to
sugar.

We don't need all that "boilerplate" in the middle of the BSOD; we've seen
it many times already. But the Stop code and the "cryptic" gibberish mean a
lot to those who can interpret it. Please don't paraphrase; quote it
verbatim.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2009 in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000)

"unknownalias" wrote in message
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My windows vista (home premium 32bit) frequently crashes. I have very
little of an idea why this is happening. It may have been after i
downloaded a program, it would have been a legitimate program, as i try
and keep my laptop safe.

It crashes instantly seemingly randomly (though i have noticed that the
internet, whichever browser may be affecting it).
It can run for long periods without crashing, but gives no warning when
it is going to crash.
It has at least two different reasons for crashing, as I have set my
laptop to not instantly reset so that I can read the blue screen. One
has a line near the top of the screen driver_sqrl_error or something
similar. But they both have errors near the bottom of the blue screen
with combinations of numbers and letters. They mean nothing to me.
They seem to be to do with memory access, in that a file could not be
accessed. It does not tell me which one, or if it does, it is too
cryptic.

If this does not give you enough information, I probably have more info
if you need it.
Any help would be appreciated, else I must get it looked at, before I
lose important work.


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unknownalias