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I can try to use the French. Although I can not read French, I am familiar enough with Windows to have a fairly good idea of what they say. Also, the driver names are in English, so I recognize those. I am concerned right now with your HP printer driver. Your driver is dated 10-20-2009, But,
Which makes me doubt it is a Windows 7 driver. Even if it is, a driver in excess of 5 years old is pretty old, as you have seen from uopdating other drivers. Even if the printer is not turned on, the driver is loaded at startup. A very wrong or especially wrong operating system driver can crash a computer at any time. Some, would not even start at all. But Windows is rather forgiving about a lot of things.Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009, less than three years after the release of its predecessor, Windows Vista.
To save me from reading 3 pages of posts, if you have not already done so,
Please Run Memtest86+
InformationPlease download from this site only http://www.memtest.org/ in the middle of the page are the Download links, you can download the ISO.zip or the Auto USB Flash Drive installer.zip
Extract the Zip file. If you chose the ISO image, burn it to a CD using Windows Disk Image Burner or any Image burner you may have. If you downloaded the Auto USB installer, extract it, insert your USB 2.0 Flash Drive and take note of the drive letter. Run the installer, select the Flash Drive Letter, check the format box and press next. It will install memtest86+ to a flash drive. You can use either V4.20 or V5.01. Boot from your selected media. If you use V5.01 it will tell you to press certain buttons at the start, please press no buttons. The test will begin on it's own and continue to run until you stop it. It needs to run for 8 complete passes or until you receive an error. If you receive an error, stop the test. Even 1 error is a fail. Each pass tests a different part of the ram and each of the 10 tests in each pass tests something different. It takes a minimum of 8 passes to completely test the ram, more passes are better. It is quite a long test and will take several hours depending on how much ram you have. Due to the time length it is best to run overnight. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask..
Have you considered a clean install of Windows? If you have or would like to do so, I can give you very specific instructions that will make it fairly easy. If it was my computer and I believed it was not a hardware problem, I would have already done one. If you consider all the time that has been spent trying to resolve this problem, we would be way ahead if we had done a clean install at the beginning. My personal computer, my philosophy is I am not going to spend weeks just trying to find the problem and then more time trying to fix it. I do clean installs frequently, mostly because this is used as a test machine for many things, even including some of the things we are doing. So, I can do one rather quickly simply because it is not the nightmare you have always heard it was if you think about it and plan for it in advance. But, that is your decision to make. But, if you do one I would like to do it in a very specific way which will take much longer, but will tell us very quickly where the problem is. If you think about doing one I can help you with it so it will not be as much of a pain as everyone says. But, I would still like to be reasonably certain that the problem is not hardware. If it is hardware, the clean install is not going to help at all.