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10months said:
I haven't done the telemetry removal, I don't particularly mind it if it won't cause any performance issues.
My Chrome extensions were removed with the fix, is it fine to reinstall them?
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Hi 10months,
It's your call but removing telemetry will reduce overhead, albeit small, and the less useless system resources you have running the better performance you will have.
Some Chrome extensions were removed due to security risk, again your call.

What games and apps no longer work?
 
Of the games I've tried I've not encountered any more crashes :D. The framerates are a little bit dodgy, but apart from that it's looking good.
There's a couple of little annoyances still, like the .gif "class not registered" and the invalid windows key... But no, thanks so much for your help - in spite of me tampering with the logs and taking three days to reply to certain things (sorry again)
I'll test a few more games tomorrow when I'm free all day, and hopefully mark it solved
 
Hi 10months.
Firstly let's clean up the tools used in removal of stuff from your pc, and please follow the instructions exactly.

Please go HERE and download Delfix Save it to your desktop.
Right click the new Delfix desktop icon
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and then click "run as administrator"
Place a tick in the following checkboxes
  1. Remove disinfection tools
  2. Create registry backup
  3. Purge system restore
  4. Then select "Run"
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Delfix will remove the tools used to clean your PC and remove itself. When finished a .txt file will display on your desktop. A copy of this file will be also located as C:\Delfix.txt.

Please post a copy of this file in your next post:)
 
~ Removing disinfection tools ...

Deleted : C:\FRST
Deleted : C:\AdwCleaner
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Downloads\FRST-OlderVersion
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Desktop\JRT.txt
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Desktop\ZHPDiag.lnk
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Desktop\ZHPDiag.txt
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Desktop\ZHPFixReport.txt
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Downloads\Addition.txt
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Downloads\adwcleaner_7.0.2.1.exe
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Downloads\Fixlog.txt
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Downloads\FRST.txt
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Downloads\FRST64.exe
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Downloads\JRT.exe
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Downloads\zhpdiag3.exe
Deleted : C:\Users\Alex\Downloads\ZHPFix.exe

~ Creating registry backup ... OK

~ Cleaning system restore ...

Deleted : RP #44 [Windows Update | 09/17/2017 14:37:30]
Deleted : RP #45 [Windows Update | 09/18/2017 02:00:19]
Deleted : RP #46 [Windows Update | 09/19/2017 02:00:19]
Deleted : RP #47 [Windows Update | 09/20/2017 02:00:20]
Deleted : RP #48 [Windows Update | 09/21/2017 02:00:20]
Deleted : RP #50 [Restore Point Created by FRST | 09/21/2017 20:51:03]
Deleted : RP #51 [Windows Update | 09/22/2017 02:00:20]
Deleted : RP #52 [Windows Update | 09/23/2017 02:00:20]

New restore point created !

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Options are Internet Explorer (two separate options) - responds with "class not registered", movie maker, paint, photo gallery, windows media center - these 4 open the first frame, then skype is an option... which just opens skype.
 
Select "choose default program" from the context menu above and then select a program of your choice. When you navigate to the program of your choice, and if you want that choice to remain, select the "always use the selected program to open this kind of file"

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...But none of the programs play the gif?
I've just installed a gif playing program and did it with that, and that's working fine.

Anything else before marking solved?
 
Okay I just had a crash with Total War: Attila (IE screens turned black, same error message sound as before)... This was during a full 20vs20 battle - including a lot of cavalry, so it's a generally moderately testing situation. Will test others now to see if the whole issue has... re-surged or if it's just still happening for highly taxing things.
In the last day all I have done is reinstalled discord, as well as this "GIF viewer" program and Anno 2070
Also recently I've had problems with the fan on my GPU being loose and causing a really annoying noise. It isn't making that noise now, could it be possible that these things are linked?

EDIT: Yes it looks like all games previously affected are broken again, and Christ, the fan has fallen off and the GPU is baking, could this be the reason for these issues? It's... from a zotac GTX 970
The fan hadn't been making that noise while I had these problems, and started up more recently as games started working again... If I take it in to be fixed is it likely the game issues will be resolved?
 
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10months said:
Also recently I've had problems with the fan on my GPU being loose and causing a really annoying noise. It isn't making that noise now, could it be possible that these things are linked?
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Yes definitely. Don't consider your issues now to be malware, more corrupted Windows and or choice of software installed. Will move this thread to Windows 7 forum where others may assist.
 
Alright so my PC's back from the shop, they replaced the GPU and fixed the issue with the windows key while they were at it. Everything's working fine now, thanks again for your help
 
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