ayushman9
Journeyman
A few week ago ,i had posted about a uniue problem related to Win 7 home premium 64 bit ,which came pre bundeled with My HP DV6 laptop . The problem was that win 7 was not aloowing to update to SP1 giving an 'Access Denied error ". After lots of searching i finally gave up .
So i went & bought a genuine Win 7 ultimate from retail that came preinstalled with SP1 . I did a clean install as i was fed up with HP . The installation was smooth . All drivers installed perfectly . Windows update was run ,and all latest updates got installed . The problem began after that
.As soon as i booted up next day ( I did not did anything else except installaion of drivers & running windows update ) . IE 9 Crashed on running . Starting firefox also crashed firefox . Fortunetly chrome ran smmothly . But the shock came when even Norton 360 crashed .
Fabled ,i restored My home premium using backup & thought that may be the dvd was pirated . I bought an windows 7 enterprise fro m my freinfd who had recently got it . It was Not sp1 integrated . I installed it ,but did not activated it & decided to run . Firefox & IE ran smmothly . Soon i installed all drivers rebooted . Everything fine . As soon i installed SP1 ,Things started to repeating . So i guesses there must be something wrong with windows itself . Becasue software such as fingerprint software which were running sommothly previously were faling.
I reinstalled Win ultimate . After the problems started to appear i checked each one of them thoroughly . I notcied that application which were faling were somehow linked to Visual c++ redistriuable as except IE & Firefox all other application that were installed , installed it during installation . Version number was not fix but 2005,2008 ,2010 were used invariably .
On close inspection i noticed except IE 9 ,which came preinstalled (Which i later found was 32 bit ) ,all other application crashing were 32 bit . To test I downloaded Firefox nightly . An lo behold ,it ran smoothly . Fortunetly i already had Office 2010 64 bit which worked like charm .
Again Adobe photoshop (64 bit) ran smoothly ,but 32 bit crashed along with adobe flash proffesional which did not seem to have 64 bit version . This all program use to run smmoothly in Win 7 Home premium 64 bit .
I bought Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate from my friend to debug whats happening . You won't believe Visual studio too crashed . I can't believe how can a deugger even if it is a 32 bit can crash.
Fortunetly Nod 32 had a 64 bit version avaliable . Otherwise i would had to run the pc without protection . Norton kept crashing while nod 32 64 bit installed smmothly.
Somehow i found that Internet explorer 9 also has a 64 bit that was preiinstalled . When i ran it ,voila it worked smoothly ,but the 32 bit keep crashing .
What could be happening ? I don't have much option as there are many application (Not to mention games ) that do not have a 64 bit counterpart .
And worse still ,while running chrome ,if a flash content is encountered like Playing Youtuve videos etc the browser crashes . I had to download Flash Player 64 bit which is still in beta stage . However it took care of the problem albeit i am able to see youtube videos in Firefox Nightly using flash 64 bit only . Rest like IE Crashes ,unless IE 64 bit uses Flash 64 bit
WMP Crashed too
Thank god for MPC 64 Bit
Adding more programs crashing
So i went & bought a genuine Win 7 ultimate from retail that came preinstalled with SP1 . I did a clean install as i was fed up with HP . The installation was smooth . All drivers installed perfectly . Windows update was run ,and all latest updates got installed . The problem began after that
.As soon as i booted up next day ( I did not did anything else except installaion of drivers & running windows update ) . IE 9 Crashed on running . Starting firefox also crashed firefox . Fortunetly chrome ran smmothly . But the shock came when even Norton 360 crashed .
Fabled ,i restored My home premium using backup & thought that may be the dvd was pirated . I bought an windows 7 enterprise fro m my freinfd who had recently got it . It was Not sp1 integrated . I installed it ,but did not activated it & decided to run . Firefox & IE ran smmothly . Soon i installed all drivers rebooted . Everything fine . As soon i installed SP1 ,Things started to repeating . So i guesses there must be something wrong with windows itself . Becasue software such as fingerprint software which were running sommothly previously were faling.
I reinstalled Win ultimate . After the problems started to appear i checked each one of them thoroughly . I notcied that application which were faling were somehow linked to Visual c++ redistriuable as except IE & Firefox all other application that were installed , installed it during installation . Version number was not fix but 2005,2008 ,2010 were used invariably .
On close inspection i noticed except IE 9 ,which came preinstalled (Which i later found was 32 bit ) ,all other application crashing were 32 bit . To test I downloaded Firefox nightly . An lo behold ,it ran smoothly . Fortunetly i already had Office 2010 64 bit which worked like charm .
Again Adobe photoshop (64 bit) ran smoothly ,but 32 bit crashed along with adobe flash proffesional which did not seem to have 64 bit version . This all program use to run smmoothly in Win 7 Home premium 64 bit .
I bought Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate from my friend to debug whats happening . You won't believe Visual studio too crashed . I can't believe how can a deugger even if it is a 32 bit can crash.
Fortunetly Nod 32 had a 64 bit version avaliable . Otherwise i would had to run the pc without protection . Norton kept crashing while nod 32 64 bit installed smmothly.
Somehow i found that Internet explorer 9 also has a 64 bit that was preiinstalled . When i ran it ,voila it worked smoothly ,but the 32 bit keep crashing .
What could be happening ? I don't have much option as there are many application (Not to mention games ) that do not have a 64 bit counterpart .
And worse still ,while running chrome ,if a flash content is encountered like Playing Youtuve videos etc the browser crashes . I had to download Flash Player 64 bit which is still in beta stage . However it took care of the problem albeit i am able to see youtube videos in Firefox Nightly using flash 64 bit only . Rest like IE Crashes ,unless IE 64 bit uses Flash 64 bit
WMP Crashed too
Thank god for MPC 64 Bit
Adding more programs crashing
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