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Blue Screen crash on Windows

genebren

I can't remember that last time that my system came crashing down, resulting in the blue screen.  It used to happen quite frequently back in the days that I was working on drivers and such, but it came crashing down today.  I don't know if my Windows 7 is upset that it is no longer supported by Microsoft, but I hope it was just some super freak occurrence, and I will be able to continue happily plugging along with my current hardware and software.

 

Anyone else experiences crashes on Windows7?  The only new software that I have been running is the Arduino IDE (in fact, I was editing code in the IDE when the system crashed), has this been known to crash the system?

 

I do think that this might be a good time to back everything to one of my network drives just in case. 

 

Thanks!

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  • Backups only work if you do them religiously, because the big crash is bound (by Murphy's law) to happen when you are least prepared.

    I run Task Manager continuously and it shows over 125 background processes running that I didn't explicitly start myself. That is a lot of code that could behave badly, or not play well with others.

    I don't even know what half of them are doing, even though the processes seem plausible, why some suddenly need a bunch of resources is a mystery. Some of them I know I don't really want running, but getting rid of them is tougher than getting rid of a virus.

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  • Backups only work if you do them religiously, because the big crash is bound (by Murphy's law) to happen when you are least prepared.

    I run Task Manager continuously and it shows over 125 background processes running that I didn't explicitly start myself. That is a lot of code that could behave badly, or not play well with others.

    I don't even know what half of them are doing, even though the processes seem plausible, why some suddenly need a bunch of resources is a mystery. Some of them I know I don't really want running, but getting rid of them is tougher than getting rid of a virus.

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  • in reply to dougw

    Doug,

     

    I totally get what you are saying. There are some files, like PCB and firmware files that I change very infrequently, that I should have backups of (especially for my clients sake).  I could save these off as backups.  I know what you mean about Task manager and all the background processes.  I have tried to make sense of these and you are right getting rid of them is very difficult.

     

    Something to think about.