Quirky Windows 7 Behaviour

Kevinf63

Okay, some may recognise me from the Antec 300 Airflow and BSOD problem Thread (just to give you an idea of what happened previous to this behaviour). I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit on my self-built PC and now after all that trouble I'm having this....

• Firstly, my recycle bin randomly keeps saying its corrupt and that everything should be deleted out of it.
• Bad Company 2 still has BSOD's with the dxgmms1.sys error mentioned and I'm certain thats a driver problem with the sound. I think thats just an DICE and EA hiccup as others have this.
• While playing Football Manager 2011 it froze with a sound loop and after closing the program through ctrl-alt-del, it continued to loop even when playing youtube videos and even after starting football manager up again. Can only be stopped by restarting the PC.
• I have both Crysis and Crysis Warhead and both crash randomly with no set period of time. After checking their logs they make reference to memory leaks.
• One time when I turned the PC on and logged in Asus Xonar DX Audio Center had stopped responding and refused to restart. I had to do a reinstall to get it working.
• After transferring my backup files over to the new fresh install, my hard drive was quite fragmented if that's any help. I recently got UPC Broadband and the wireless phone, and broadband router are sitting beside the PC although I don't think that would make any difference.
• Lastly trying to close some applications like Metaboli Downloader (GAME.co.uk video game downloader) I occasionally get this "unhandled exception" error I haven't got a prime example, but next time it happens I'll post it up.
• I have done CHKDSK, sfc /SCANNOW and ran memtest86+ for 6 passes, all with no errors. So...(sigh)... What could be the problem now?

Any help would be once again greatly appreciated... EDIT: sorry for posting twice in another category, I was confused as to where to put this.

Capt'n Midnight

If you are having a lot of problems with windows then at some point you wonder if the registry is corrupt or if you have malware. Do a thorough malware scan.

If the registry is corrupt then in many cases re-installing over the top won't fix the problems and a clean install is the only way to sort it out.

Kevinf63

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

If you are having a lot of problems with windows then at some point you wonder if the registry is corrupt or if you have malware. Do a thorough malware scan.

If the registry is corrupt then in many cases re-installing over the top won't fix the problems and a clean install is the only way to sort it out.

I did a full scan with Microsoft Security essentials and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware both came back with no evidence of viruses.

By fresh install I meant I did a clean install literally about 3 days ago as I was missing very important files from the last Windows 7 install due to Driver Sweeper (beware!) which caused the BSOD's.