Command Services Blue Screen

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==Steps I followed==
 
==Steps I followed==
Microsoft's help site is not more specific that that, but does recommend a series of steps you follow.  Following these steps however gives conflicting results.  Although you *can* get to a point where continued reboots do not cause a blue screen, this point also appears to block you from signing onto AOL, probably because some required service is not loaded.  In addition, following the step, which you must, to "disable ALL services", removes all your old restore points.  So after doing this, which you will, and it will not solve the problem, you've now created a computer that can never again be rolled back before today.  Thank you so much Microsoft.  I would recommend their help page be changed to say, do NOT under any circumstances, disable ALL services, ever, period.
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Microsoft's help site is not more specific that that, but does recommend a series of steps you follow.  Following these steps however gives conflicting results.  Although you *can* get to a point where continued reboots do not cause a blue screen, this point also appears to block you from signing onto AOL, probably because some required service is not loaded.  In addition, following the step, which you must, to "disable ALL services", removes all your old restore points.  So after doing this, which you will, and it will not solve the problem, you've now created a computer that can never again be rolled back before today.  Thank you so much Microsoft.  I would recommend their help page be changed to say, do NOT under any circumstances, disable ALL services, ever, period. Because it won't help and then perhaps an evil laugh like bwah ha ha ha you didn't listen...
  
 
At any rate, after that rant, the instructions fail to allow the average user to properly determine how to fix the error.  Asking a user to start or stop dozens of services vaguely defined, until the system works for a day, is not really a *solution* at all.  That Microsoft would ask users to do this, is ridiculous.  In addition, one particular service, if you turn it off and reboot will WIPE OUT all your restore points.  It's a timebomb, they should change the page.  Okay I guess I wasn't done ranting.
 
At any rate, after that rant, the instructions fail to allow the average user to properly determine how to fix the error.  Asking a user to start or stop dozens of services vaguely defined, until the system works for a day, is not really a *solution* at all.  That Microsoft would ask users to do this, is ridiculous.  In addition, one particular service, if you turn it off and reboot will WIPE OUT all your restore points.  It's a timebomb, they should change the page.  Okay I guess I wasn't done ranting.
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Does any of this fix the problem?  Let me know.  I'm not quite sure myself yet.
 
Does any of this fix the problem?  Let me know.  I'm not quite sure myself yet.
  
While I was doing some of the above, I got a blue screen again.  After a few more reboots I was able to do through the process without a blue screen. And rebooted cleanly without a blue screen.  I also noticed in One-click fixes, under the Connectivity tab "Prevent IE from dialing a connection".  I did this one as well because when I reboot I get a message saying that something is trying to connect to youtube.com
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While I was doing some of the above, I got a blue screen again.  After a few more reboots I was able to go through the process without a blue screen. And rebooted cleanly without a blue screen.  I also noticed in One-click fixes, under the Connectivity tab "Prevent IE from dialing a connection".  I did this one as well because when I reboot I get a message saying that something is trying to connect to youtube.com
  
 
The last two times I've rebooted, this message no longer comes up, so hopefully we're making progress here!  My thanks go neither to AOL nor to Microsoft.  And if you have the chance be sure to bitch in their ear for me, thanks.
 
The last two times I've rebooted, this message no longer comes up, so hopefully we're making progress here!  My thanks go neither to AOL nor to Microsoft.  And if you have the chance be sure to bitch in their ear for me, thanks.
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End of story?  Until next time my friend, until next time.  AOL hires high school dropouts to constantly update their software it seems.  Each update introduces more bugs, but hey, life's a bitch huh?
 
End of story?  Until next time my friend, until next time.  AOL hires high school dropouts to constantly update their software it seems.  Each update introduces more bugs, but hey, life's a bitch huh?
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==Update==
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I wrote all the above back in what July?  At any rate it's now October so I suppose it would be only fair to mention that something in the above DID... INDEED... fix the problem back then.  Hopefully one of you thousand readers will do things in a different order and maybe we can narrow the solution down to just a five-minute fix instead of the THREE DAYS of staying home FROM WORK that it took me. Okay I guess I wasn't done ranting.  Maybe AOL support will hire me or compensate me huh?

Latest revision as of 08:33, 1 October 2007

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