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Thanks for your replay. I did read all I could find about the Spectre-Meltdown registry settings and I did also try all possible combinations. But on my machine it did not make any difference. At 1.6 GHz (60%) everything runs fine. At 1.2 GHz (50%), no, a crash before you can say sh..
In the mean time, I took your suggestion and changed to Windows 7 x64. That meant a re-install from scratch. So the 32 bit environment that I had is now only in backup. Using 64 bit now. Same setup.
Please I meant no offense to anyone. I am not accusing MS of anything and I am not pretending that I have a better solution ! In fact, I don't have any solution myself. If it was not for your excellent work here I would never even have known what the problem was, let alone what the possible remedy would be. I am very grateful for your efforts. By myself I would have probably concluded that this machine should go in the garbage can. Even though I know it was working perfectly untill MS started to fix things ...
The whole story of Spectre/Meltdown seems a little exagerated to me, especially for my machine. It is mostly academic. I see the true solution only at hardware level. A job for the CPU manufacturers. In fact, I expect to hear a lot more about similar type of bugs in the near future. There may come a point when software fixing becomes intolerable.
What I don't understand, we seem to be able to switch off the Spectre-Meltdown fix with registry settings. But why then can I not lower the CPU speed if I do that ?