Hello Ned,
In Control Panel choose Problem Reports and Solutions (type problem in
Start's searchbox), go to Problem History, right click your error and choose
Check For Solution. You can also examine the details.
In Administrative Tools choose Reliability and Performance Monitor and
choose MonitoringTools then Reliability Monitor (type Reliability in search
on Start) . This list is a chart of software installs, uninstalls, Windows
updates, and crashes by date. See if your crashes started happening after
you installed or uninstalled something.
Post the dmp file (the name you get from the problem's details) to a file
hosting site. Then we can download and analyse it.
It may help to rule out hardware faults
Type memory in Start's search box and choose Memory Diagnostic
In a command prompt (type command in Start's search box then right click and
choose Run As Administrator) type
chkdsk c: /r
If you have more than one drive replace C: with the other drive letter.
Also test memory with Memory Diagnostics (type memory in Start's search
box).
You may wish to do clean boot
troubleshooting <
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796>
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