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Windows 7 Ult 64 bit trapped by BSD and can not get out.
satrow:
DRT = Driver Reference Table at Carrona.org, mirrored at Sysnative. A big list of the commonest drivers, often linking them to the originating site, where it might be possible to find drivers or further details.
If you're not using a piece of hardware, remove it or disable it from within the BIOS and that should prevent the driver from being loaded at Boot. (Here's how to determine which Broadcom device you have https://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet-nic#determine_driver, it's a similar routine for other hardware drivers as well.)
I think you're running the old BitDefender 2015 version, uninstaller linked here. There's no single security software that's foolproof, most that claim to be are quite heavy and can interfere too much with eg. baked-in browser security, to the extent that you might be more at risk. Avast, Avg, Avira free versions are all quite good when they've been stripped down to remove the dross. Much depends on your PC usage though.
Now that Vista's fallen over the cliff, W7 is an older OS. MS' support for it has already declined, the latest CPU/motherboard chipsets don't support W7 - for older hardware, drivers are rarely updated.
The AMD drivers are likely to be good (though I'd still check for a more recent driver), Win32k.sys is a core Windows driver that sits between the graphics drivers, DirectX and GDI, and the Windows kernel. It's frequently updated to fix vulnerabilities - if it's compromised by some malformed fonts, for instance, it can lead to the PC being owned by the bad guys. It's not something that's possible to disable, without it, there's be no windows in Windows!
There are a few software programs that claim to find, and some might even install, updated drivers but they're not 100% accurate (neither are Windows' driver updates, even with W10), one bad driver and you might be back to BSODs.
Many drivers come as part of an installer package, so they're pretty much automated, others might need installing via the Device Manager (check the upper images in the above Broadcom links and you'll see Update Driver options in the menus).
FreeCat:
I am lost with all the driver stuff from satnow. I really want to thank him for all the information, but basically it tells me that the problem could be in 367 different places. And getting each driver one is like eating spagetti that is in Italy with very long forks when I am in Florida.
I did scannow - complete 100% and said there were errors but log file did not have any errors. I'd like to see those errors but log file is 0 bytes (great programming Mr. Softie. :).
Either Jim, satnow or Boggin suggested some virus checker but I can not find the link (went through emails and forum twice). I would like to try virus checker.
Then as a last resort, just go back to the checkpoints I made before the update. I think I did registry back then also. Or, if I knew how, just uninstall the Windows update.
Could this make this worse?
Thanks.
Boggin:
Your BSODs seem to start after those updates so going back to before them with your restore points could just put you back to where you are now unless you hid them when offered again.
I only suggested you could have an infection if you didn't have AOMEI installed.
To identify which updates you got, go Start - type windows update and press enter then click on View update history where you can make a note of their KB numbers.
You will then need to go to Installed Updates, put the KB number into the top right search box and when it comes up, right click on it and select Uninstall, but it will be a slow process as each one will require a reboot and reconfigure updates.
It may not have been all of the updates that caused the BSODs.
You could use your restore points to go back to before them and when they are re-offered, just select one at a time and if things are okay after the reboot, create a restore point and do the same for the rest of the updates.
I think it was a year or so ago that some of six updates I got on my Win 7 laptop took out my audio and that is what I did to identify which ones.
The thing is though that you can't access Windows update in Safe Mode to uninstall a particular update if you end up with another BSO, but you will be able to use the new restore points you have created and then when you get that update again, right click on it and select Hide.
Change you update settings to Let me choose.. and then you will be able to vet them for single installs.
satrow:
According to systeminfo.txt, the last 10 KBs installed:
[235]: KB3156019
[236]: KB3159398
[237]: KB3161561
[238]: KB3161949
[239]: KB3161958
[240]: KB3163245
[241]: KB3164033
[242]: KB3164035
[243]: KB3167679
[244]: KB3168965
[245]: KB3170455
FreeCat:
Thanks for your help Boggin and satnow, but:
Grrrr. In trying to use a restore point in safe mode, the systems says "no restore points have been created."
But, I definitely created some before the update. Did a registry backup also. See scannow message, attached. Maybe with a reboot I can see the log file?
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