Reliability & Performance Monitor nightmare.

[Petrosky]

Help please,

I occasionally check this monitor to see how matters are going on my PC (Windows Home Premium Vista(64 bit)). It normally sails along between 8.75 to 9.5 (scale 1 - 10). The other day I tried downloading new software for my Fuji Digital camera which, at every turn, failed. The camera would not be recognised. Worst of all my whole system was thrown into disarray and a blue screen of "death" appeared..the computer constantly asking me to download new software no matter what I attach (memory sticks, printers etc.) In desperation I completely uninstalled the Camera software and, if I want photos, I simply insert it's card into the card reader... works fine. Then I casually checked the Performance monitor to discover to my horror that it had plummeted to 4.1..screen dotted with yellow triangles and failures everywhere. Below are some of it's announcements:

(1)Software Uninstalls: USB\VID.............Driver install..........................Failure

WPDBUSENUMROOT.................................... ..........Stopped working.

(2) Applications: FinePixViewerS.exe .........................................Stopped working

Quick DCF2.exe ..........................................Stopped working



(3) Windows: OS .................................................. .......Stopped working..failure(0x0000007e)





These announcements are dotted all over the screen. Is there anything I should be worried about ? System appears to be working fine and System Health Report states this.

[jc.in.van]

I think it would be best to do a system restore to a date prior to ever pluging in that camera of yours.



Hope you have been doing some good backups.

[Petrosky]

I think it would be best to do a system restore to a date prior to ever pluging in that camera of yours.



Hope you have been doing some good backups.

Hi JC,in.van,

I have completely uninstalled the Camera from the PC and if I want to transfer photos I just plug it's card in the card reader. Seems to work

and the warning signs have stopped appearing with the Performance Monitor starting to climb it's way back. I always do back-ups and sometimes use System

Restore though sometimes this creates more problems with an old piece of troublesome software, that was deleted some time ago, suddenly re-appearing. Thanks.

[jc.in.van]

That is why I always keep a "safe" (clean) back-up to restore back to just in case the incremental is not ideal; and a spare clean system, on a separate drive, to boot to, in the event of failure or frustration. That is also why my back-ups (and updates) are not scheduled or automatic but manual before major changes.