Something is up with my WIN 7 pro PC.
I have tons of critical errors in event viewer that include;
Boot/Standby/Shutdown Performance Monitoring errors and Desktop Window Managment Monitoring.
Also, I can't get my Airfoil app to run as it crashes. It ran just fine before so I suspect some kind conflict.
ANyhow, any tips on how to run a utility program that can fix all these errors?
How far along in the boot process do you get before errors start? Can you get all the way into Windows? Can you do anything in Windows once you get in?
If you suspect that a Windows update is the culprit here, you can uninstall all Windows updates which have been installed starting with the day before the problem started. That may, in fact, fix the problem. If it does, you're done.
If that doesn't fix the problem, then I suggest reinstalling the Windows updates that you uninstalled; and then see if there is a service running which is causing the problems. To do that, run MSCONFIG. Go to the Services tab. Check the box which says "Hide all Microsoft services". Once you have done that, only the non-Microsoft services will be showing. Select all of them, then disable them. Click apply, then restart the computer. If that fixed the problem, then you need to re-enable them one at a time, to see which one is the problematic service. You can use MSCONFIG to re-enable the services. Be sure to note which one causes the problem, so that you can leave that one disabled. And be sure to re-enable all of them, one at a time, to see if there are any other problematic services.
If disabling the non-Microsoft services didn't fix it, then you should re-enable all of them; don't leave them disabled.
If none of this fixes the problem, you may have a hardware issue. If you have recently done a firmware update, you may have a firmware problem.
Lets do the basic first.
- Run check disk
Open a CMD window and type chkdsk c: /f
It will say that drive is in use and if you want to schedule to next start = yes
Reboot
Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks or bad clusters.
- Do a system file check
Open a CMD window and type sfc /scannow
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