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I tried again and even fewer of the files were collected. So if you can't make do with the first ZIP I sent, I will have to try a different approach.
I tried again and even fewer of the files were collected. So if you can't make do with the first ZIP I sent, I will have to try a different approach.
I actually found the poqrpog.sys file, and it IS a component of GMER. So therefore, the one BSOD from earlier (which I am not able to replicate) must have been something completely different. The BSODs whose dumps I collected are not the fault of Windows alone, and therefore are probably not related to the original problems of the hanging startup and the slow file system.
I did download the manufacturer's disk testing utility, which checked all sectors (about a billion of them, it took almost 3 hours) and did not find any bad sectors.
At the moment I can only think of a Repair Install - Repair Install
In my case it was update KB3055642. Removed it and disabled it and windows was fine again.
Hope that will help someone, had to try different combinations of updates to find out.