Re: Fresh install, plus personal files, still crashing.

micky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.hardware
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 5 Aug 2020 01:18:54 -0000 (UTC), John
Doe <[email protected]> wrote:

>micky <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> My previous thread is pretty far back so to recap, I had had 50+ BSODs
>> with 5 or more different reasons given.  
>> 
>> I installed the May update over my current win10 and then downloaded a
>> whole version and installed that over it.  No change. 
>> 
>> Debugging was hard because it sometimes crashes before it fully boots
>> and sometimes within 30 seconds. 

30 seconds after it fully boots.   Sometimes longer or I coudln't have
run the reinstall or reinstall with personal files. 

>>  Worked fine in Safe Mode
>> 
>> So I used that source of media, I forget t he name, and re-installed
>> win10 keeping my personal files and nothing else
>
>That is not a "fresh install". You need to start with a formatted hard 
>drive and install Windows on that BLANK hard drive, with NOTHING else.

I know it 's not a fresh install, but are you saying that one of my
files could cause a crash even if it's not part of a any program or
process that is running? 

Is there any reason to think it's less likely to crash if those are not
kept on the HDD?
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