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Boggin:
Yes, when you first install MBAM you get the 14 day Trial Premium version which will revert to the free version on expiry where it is just an antimalware scanner which you would run manually and is a very good one - I have the free version installed.

MSE isn't bad but there are better programs and if you are happy with Avast Free then install that, but run the MSE Uninstaller first - I don't know what emini is.

As for the clock, it said the correct time and told you to put yours right ?

Going by the time stamp of the posts, the updates seem to be taking a lot longer than they should.

When this lot finish, go Start - type disk cleanup then right click on Disk Cleanup and select Run as administrator

This could find a few GB of obsolete updates to clean out and may help.

FreeCat:
OK, Boggin, I hope I am not speaking too soon, but I believe that we are close to the end of this nightmare.

Except for the MS Office 10, it seems all of the important updates are applied; and, I believe I mentioned that I do not have MS Office 10; instead I have 03 and 13.

I did do the disk cleanup and that got rid of some stuff.

I un-installed MS Essentials and are about to install Avast.  If I remember you use only free version of MalwareBytes.  anything else?

There are optional updates (posted below) and I am unsure of these; I remember Shane once saying long ago:  "If it is not marked important, skip it.

So, is that still the right guidance?

After all of these, I am at a loss to figure out exactly what was done to "fix" my machine and exactly what was wrong with it.  Do you know?

Is there anything else to check for in case there is still some unknown lurking problem?  Any further diagnostics to run?

Boggin:
At the top of your second pic it mentions 2 Important updates but I can only see the one for AMD.

If you click on the AMD one and then on More info in the right pane, it will tell you what it is for just as it will for those other updates immediately below.

Quite often they are for remote desktop.

I wouldn't bother with those language ones unless you want to install them.

Any you don't want to install, check their boxes and right click on each and select Hide.

Can you compare your admin command prompt to mine that I have posted.

For me, yours isn't as it should be.

FreeCat:
Howdy Boggin,

Been away most of yesterday so that is why I am late responding.  Back now.

I am confused about these two important updates also.  When I click where you said, I get info that they are for MS Office 2010 which I do not have.  I will use your suggestion to hide these.

Those were "important" but not for me as I do not have Office 2010.  they are still listed as important even though I have hidden them. 

The only ones left are AMD for display - but I am afraid of this as I had so many problems getting these AMD W7000 cards to work properly.

Based on what I told you I heard long ago from Shawn:  I guess that the other updates in picture below (not marked important) can be ignored.  Is that correct?

Well, I do not understand about the admin command prompt.  I am operating machine as admin with name of Morgan Pierce Parker.

So, are there any final diagnostics that I should apply to be sure that I have gotten all corruption from machine?

Do you have any idea what "we" did to fix things and what was the cause of this original BSOD from last Summer?

Thanks, again, Boggin.

Boggin:
What did the info say for that AMD one ?

Yes, you can probably ignore the ones below the AMD one.

Sometimes updates can cause problems on some machines which could be why you got the BSOD.

There are two ways to run a cmd prompt - as an user or as an admin.

To run cmds such as chdksk /f or /r and a scfc /scannow you need to run it as an admin.

This is what you get when you run it as an user where you see the computer name -

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.309]
(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\KAM4>

and this is what you get when you run it as an admin -

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.309]
(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

To run a cmd prompt as an admin you would go Start - type cmd then right click on cmd and select Run as administrator.

To run it as an user, when cmd comes up you would just press enter.

Can you either go back to your pics you attached to compare or open an user cmd prompt and then as an admin as I've described.

Yours of course will have Win 7 on them.

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