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Windows 7 crashing after update...
Hello all, I've had my laptop for about 3 years now, and have had Windows 7 on it for about a year and a half now. I have never had any issues with 7 until this time, aside from a scarce amount of past bsods which resolved themselves with a simple restart.
However, on 1/12/11 around 2 AM, my laptop started to auto-update. Before I went to sleep I shut it down & installed the updates, then went to sleep. The next morning upon turning on the top, after the windows logo appeared and the updates finished applying themselves, I fell privy to the bsod. After starting up again, it asked me to do a launch system restore, which I did. The system was then fine, but within minutes the auto-update started, and lo and behold -- when i clicked the Start, there was the orange update shield by the shutdown button again. So, I tried it again, same thing, same process. This is now my third restart (but really 6th, since the process involved the initial startup-crash, then reboot to system restore), and I don't know what I should do. Please help me out
Basic Info:
-Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
-Windows Vista was the original OS (pre)installed
-Acquired Windows 7 through a student promotional website http://www.win741.com
-Laptop aged around 3 years
-Windows 7 installed for around 1.5 years
Additional Info from CPU-Z, S.M.A.R.T. report, and bsod protocol: