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Blue Screen and Memory Dump after opening directory with many images
My laptop suddenly got very slow and then produced a blue screen and did a quick memory dump. I wasn't able to to read the information or codes on the screen because the screen lasted like 2 or seconds and computer restarted.
I was testing something with MS paint and tried saving it to the a directory in the pictures library (the dir had about 180 or so images). It took a while and the save screen would not show all the files in the directory. The laptop got real slow from there, I tried opening explorer to the pictures directory and it wouldn't load properly. Just a very slow loading green progress bar on explorer. Then the blue screen. At this time CPU usage was around 20-30% while mem usage was 62% or so.
When it restarted things were very, very,very slow. It took 10-15 mins, before I could press any of the objects on the window startup screen and icons. And when I did press any icons, like chrome, it took a real long time to load, and after I couldn't do anything because each click took a lifetime to execute. CPU usage was low and mem was like 30%
I restarted using safe mode, which looked ok. Then restarted again and things look ok since then, except that it seems to get slow when 3-4 applications are open, even if mem usage is like 60% or so.
My specs are pentium dual core T4500 2.3ghz
2gb ram, windows starter, 32bit
262gb free out of 297gb, 35gb used
What happened and is there a way to fix things. Things seem slower than they were before when a number of apps are open. I ran avast last night and malware bytes to check for problems but both came up clean.
At some point yesterday, when it got real slow to the point where you couldn't do anything, I was contemplating on reinstalling. How difficult is it to do this just in case. I use a asus machine with linux that has a reset where you just reset it and it goes back to clean start of linux, very clean, one-click simple if you get into trouble. Is there such a thing for windows?
One last thing I'm running chrome right now with 2 tabs open, in the task manager, I see 7 chrome.exe processes with mem usage ranging from 103,000k to 5000k. why is that happening?
Thanks.