My computer slowed down tremendously (web navigation speed) in what seemed like an overnight period. Shortly after, I have gotten several of the dreaded “blue screen” lock ups with the 0x8E and 0x7E error messages. I haven’t had any issues be identified by my Avast scans though. Speed tests (speedtest.net) still show download of 20MBPS so it isn’t my connection.
When I run a registry scan for errors, it gives me 100s of errors that are mostly:
The file referenced doesn’t exist
The registry key contains no data
After “fixing” the errors they just come right back. Any chance this can be some sort of virus that Avast isn’t picking up? Any other ideas?
“I am guessing” this would all depend on what Registry Cleaner you are using??? Maybe I missed it somewhere, did you mention anywhere what Reg Cleaner you’re using, and how long have you been using it for??
Guessing again…Some Reg cleaners give you the results that are basic errors…than the other errors that are added are there for if “advanced users” want to do extra error fixing…Which doesn’t mean that all are bad…
Just thought I’d add this in case you were using a new reg cleaner…
Cheers!!! and safe surfing!!!
Thanks. I trashed it and don’t remember but that is not my main point. The blue screens were indicating that I had a problem with something.
I googled the issues that I mentioned in the first post and what I read indicated that it was either a hardware problem, registry issue or virus.
The first thing I did was check the registry and I found the problems I have noted. After a suggestion here that it was probably hardware, I ran windows diagnostic and there were no errors found.
Mysteriously after that, the computer was back to normal speed. We’ll see what happens from here on out.