.exe's cause blue screen of death

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.exe's cause blue screen of death

Posted 31 January 2006 - 05:59 AM

I was up until 4am last night trying to fix my uncles computer, mainly just alot of spyware/adware/malware/etc

Anyway, the last thing I did was change some stuff in the registry to allow right click --> properties again, and to allow him to change the background

then the next mourning when I started up the PC and downloaded a Registry Cleaner and double clicked the .exe It immediatly went to the BSOD. I've also tested this with multiple .exe files, all the same.

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Re: .exe's cause blue screen of death

Posted 31 January 2006 - 07:33 AM

Any chance you may have inadvertantly changed something you should not have in the registry?
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Re: .exe's cause blue screen of death

Posted 31 January 2006 - 07:39 AM

I seriously doubt it, I was only changing reg's following online tutorials, and even then I was only changing the data from (1) to (0), I doubt theres a

CrashOnEXE (0)

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Re: .exe's cause blue screen of death

Posted 31 January 2006 - 11:22 PM

If there's a BSOD on starting every exe...It'd be better to reinstall Windows...safe.
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Re: .exe's cause blue screen of death

Posted 01 February 2006 - 08:08 AM

I ended up just doing a system restore to a point where windows had automatically saved the day before.
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