独一无二, 无尽的爱

In addition to the power cable being very loosely fixed to my laptop, meaning I have to keep the battery on all the time, my laptop has given me the BSOD (that stands for Blue Screen Of Death) twice during this month…. I haven’t had it since I had the whole WinXP reinstalled around May, and I thought I was going to keep being ‘lucky’ this year. Apparently it is caused by a driver problem. So I racked my brains to think what could have caused this and my latest changes in no proper order were… added Opera, upgraded Skype, Firefox, QQ, installed Free Commander 2006, and …Oh yes! Upgraded my IE6 to IE7 because the WinXP autoupdate had already downloaded it and I was getting pissed at the reminder to upgrade every time I wanted to switch off my laptop. I’ve now disabled the full automatic update as I want to know what it’s planning to install on my pc first.

Now that I think of it, the other BSOD appeared shortly after I had the IE7 installed, plus IE took so long to get connected to the internet. I disabled the phishing check in case that was the cause. For some unknown reason IE7 kept checking proxy server for like 5-10sec before it connected with the net, something my Firefox and Opera doesn’t do.

Anyway, after the 2nd BSOD, I decided to try a program called RegCure after I found it on LifeHacker. I was surprised to see I had so many duds in my config (see picture). The problem is RegCure don’t repair the most important ones (such as DLL error, Registration Keys, etc…) on the free version. At least now I know why my computer is slow on startup. I’m going to check if I can get some free software to remove the RegKey clutters.