Did the windows defender work yesterday. It took about 6 hours but nothing was found. Also did a RAM check with Memtest86 which showed nothing. Also ran a sfc scan with no results. I think the ext thing to do is a Repair Install. Suggestions are welcome.
Question: did you run at least 6 passes with memtest86+ ?
Next: carry out following which will allow me to see the results, etc from using WDO.
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# **********************INSTRUCTIONS**************************
# STEP 1 ** RUN POWERSHELL AS ADMINISTRATOR ******************
# ************************************************************
#
# WIN key | type POWERSHELL | do NOT hit ENTER |
# in the PROGRAMS list, right-click on WINDOWS POWERSHELL |
# choose "Run as administrator" |
# Click on the YES button (if such appears)
#
# WIN key = key with Microsoft log on top
#
# for the guru:
# WIN | type POWERSHELL | CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER key combo | ALT+Y keycombo
# ************************************************************
# STEP 2 ** COPY AND PASTE ***********************************
# ************************************************************
#
# COPY the script using CTRL+C,
# COPY every line of script down thru both EXIT statements
#
# PASTE into Powershell
#----Right-Click at the PowerShell Prompt
#----(Ctrl+V does not work)
#
# Start copying with first script line without a # at start of the line
# Note: Actually, you can paste the entire file if you rather
#-------Lines starting with a # are ignored by PowerShell
# ************************************************************
# STEP 3 ** SCRIPT OUTPUT & SCRIPT PURPOSE *******************
# ************************************************************
# --The script output and purpose is given at the very front of the script
#
# --The script output and purpose is given at the very front of the script
#
# ************************************************************
# ***************** NOTE - POWERSHELL VERSION*****************
# if you receive this error msg:
#--The system can not find the path specified
# you may need to update your PowerShell
# you must be using Powershell 2.0 or later.
#
# To determine your Powershell version:
#---Run PowerShell
#---enter $host.version
#---you should see at least:
# Major Minor Build Revision
# ----- ----- ----- --------
# 2......0......-1.....-1
#
# If you do not see the above, update your Vista/Win 7.
# ************************************************************
# *************** NOTE - EXECUTION POLICY*********************
# If you haven't set the execution policy, you may need to:
#---Run PowerShell
#---enter SET-EXECUTIONPOLICY -EXECUTIONPOLICY REMOTESIGNED
# ************************************************************
PHP:
# ************************************************************
# Zips up your log files from Windows Defender Offline
# and extended info about the log files
# Places WDOlogs.ZIP on your Desktop
#
# ************************************************************
function New-Zip {
param([Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
[String] $Path, [Switch] $PassThru, [Switch] $Force )
Process { if (Test-Path $path) {if (-not $Force) { return } }
Set-Content $path ("PK" + [char]5 + [char]6 + ("$([char]0)" * 18))
$item = Get-Item $path; $item.IsReadOnly = $false;if ($passThru) { $item } } }
function Copy-ToZip {param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=0,ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] [Alias('FullName')]
[String]$File, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=1)] [String]$ZipFile,[Switch]$HideProgress,[Switch]$Force )
Begin {$ShellApplication = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
if (-not (Test-Path $ZipFile)) {New-Zip $ZipFile};$Path = Resolve-Path $ZipFile
$ZipPackage =$ShellApplication.Namespace("$Path")}
Process {$RealFile = Get-Item $File; if (-not $RealFile) { return }
if (-not $hideProgress) {$perc +=5; if ($perc -gt 100) { $perc = 0 }
Write-Progress "Copying to $ZipFile" $RealFile.FullName -PercentComplete $perc}
$Flags = 0; if ($force) {$flags = 16 -bor 1024 -bor 64 -bor 512};Write-Verbose $realFile.Fullname
$ZipPackage.CopyHere($realFile.Fullname, $flags);Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 500}}
$fileinfo = join-path $env:TEMP \wdofileinfo.txt
IF (test-path $fileinfo) {del $fileinfo -ea:silentlycontinue -force:$true}
$dir = $env:windir + '\Microsoft Antimalware\Support'
$a = dir $dir -rec -force -ea:silentlycontinue | sort-object -property lastwritetime
$b = $a | where {$_.extension -eq '.log'} |Select mode, fullname, name, creationtime, lastwritetime, lastaccesstime, length, extension
$b | out-file -append $fileinfo
$b | foreach ($_.fullname) {get-content -path $_.fullname} | out-file -append $fileinfo
$ziploc = $env:userprofile + '\desktop\WDOlogs.ZIP'
new-zip $ziploc -verbose:$false -ea:silentlycontinue -force:$true
copy-tozip $fileinfo $ziploc -verbose:$false -hideprogress:$true
del $fileinfo
EXIT
EXIT
# ************************************************************
That will put a ZIP file on to your desktop. Attach the ZIP file to your next post.
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If you are eager to reinstall, then despite the title of this tutorial, all cases are covered:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html#post1839164
