Update concerning my ongoing experience with my WIN 7 computer... [View all]

[abqtommy]

I do this as a thank-you to all the help I've gotten from computer people here and also
hope that someone might be able to benefit from my experience. This is a little long
but it is original writing...

So I keep my WIN 7 machine in my bedroom where I also run a laptop running Vista
as backups. I regularly fire them both up to make sure things are working. I noticed
that the WIN7 unit had begun showing the Blue Screen of Catastrophic Failure
whenever I used it to access the internet, with text that said I had a disk failure. I tried to get into the 'set-up' or 'safe' modes and that wasn't working. I also noticed that I saw the words 'Keyboard Failure' a few times.

It only took me about 5 minutes to locate a new keyboard and swap that in and lo, soon
I was In Safe Mode With Command Prompt. After reviewing information on my WIN 10
machine I entered the command prompt "chkdsk C: /F /X /R" (Without the quotation marks and yes, there's a space before each / and a space before the C.) This command prompt was supposed to result in the analysis of the failure and repair of my disk. It took quite a while to run and when it was done I did a restart by entering "shutdown /r" (with a space before the /) and it restarted.

When I brought the machine back up and online what did I see but the Blue Screen Of Catastrophic Shutdown. But this time there was no disk warning. What I had instead was a suggestion to check the BIOS with a few settings that were recommended to check. So I got into the BIOS and never did find the recommended settings but did find one setting that was disabled and since the accompanying text said it should be enabled I did just that. So I got out and did another restart.

I went through start-up again and got online. I got one screen flicker and a little
box notice that said "Windows has recovered from an unexpected problem" and that
went away and I was up and running with no Blue Screen.

This happened several weeks ago and every week I fire up the WIN 7 unit and it just keeps chugging along. This makes me very happy, as you can imagine.

I keep getting update notices every time I turn on this unit. Remember that Microsoft was going to end support for WIN 7 over a year ago but that hasn't happened yet. I'm
not complaining but I do wonder why.

They all lived happily ever after. The End