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That guide is essentially how I installed these drivers. I learned (from here, actually) a long while ago that everything but the PhysX and graphics drivers can cause problems, especially the HD Audio in some cases.
As for Steam... I'm beginning to think this is somehow related to it. The weird things seem to only happen while Steam is running (or a game in Steam), or after it's been closed. After not using Steam the majority of the day yesterday, I gave ESO a play later in the night and not only did it crash (in a manner to trigger the game's "What were you doing? Send us data." dialog), but after I killed the process (since it decided to stay open), MSE once again tried to tell me its service was stopped. It came back on shortly after Steam had been closed this time, though.
From the event viewer, this is the most common entry:
But then there's also one involving mrt.exe:Code:Faulting application name: MsMpEng.exe, version: 4.8.204.0, time stamp: 0x5541eadf Faulting module name: mpengine.dll, version: 1.1.11701.0, time stamp: 0x55458bd7 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000000000002d068 Faulting process id: 0x388 Faulting application start time: 0x01d098a5f2d782e1 Faulting application path: c:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\MsMpEng.exe Faulting module path: c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Microsoft Antimalware\Definition Updates\{8D786D3A-D8AA-487A-805D-34F2DB9ED83C}\mpengine.dll Report Id: de4b94a4-04a9-11e5-83d4-001fbc09890f
I also had DWM.exe halt a few nights ago and not restart until the machine was restarted also. Though I forget what else was going on at the time.Code:Faulting application name: mrt.exe, version: 5.24.11401.0, time stamp: 0x554259ff Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18839, time stamp: 0x553e8bfa Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x00000000000bfc22 Faulting process id: 0xcd4 Faulting application start time: 0x01d0990f3d79739e Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\mrt.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Report Id: 80fa7d4a-0502-11e5-98b4-001fbc09890f
And now that I look at MSE's settings, I notice my Exceptions have been wiped. At one point I had the entire Steam directory in the Exception list, which is now blank. I can't say for how long it's been like this, though.