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

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 5 Aug 2020 02:08:04 -0000 (UTC), John
Doe <[email protected]> wrote:

>No telling what Windows keeps on the hard drive.
>
>The way to tell if crashing is hardware related is to do a clean install, 
>that is an install on a formatted hard drive (with bare minimum hardware).

Well, when I did this a week ago, I checked if programs were installed,
and concluded for good reason** that they were not. 

**For example, Anvir that had been installed now just offered to install
itself.    And when I  installed Firefox, it didn't install where it had
been or it didn't find any of the bookmarks for the book  mark bar etc. 

But it appears that several, or many, are.   I suppose I coudl have
checked Don't delete anything, but I sure don't think I did that. 

I chose the middle choice.  Then for some reason it  asked me again, and
again I chose the middle choice, then iirc it offered to let me change
it but I didn't, because I thought as long as I keep doing that it will
keep offering. . 

Another strange thing, When looked in file manager a week ago, there
were no extensions for known file types.  No .exe programs in one case. 

But now there are. 



So no longer any special reason to suspect the hardware.  But thanks for
the answers.  I'rve saved them for when I need them, and I'll probably
remember them too. 



>
>> 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? 
>>