Hi Maurice Thanks for the link! Crashing? Two types. Overheating, the computer shuts itself off and (sometimes) restarts. You get a DOS alert on the restarts that you've just been shut down due to overheating. I assume this is HP software rather than Windows 7. Second type, BSD. I thought these were linked to a troublesome AVG update in Feb 2012 which had apparently caused a bit of grief. (I changed to 360 from AVG on comparing reviews of AVG 2012 and 360). But, the crashes have kept on going and I looked for something else. Having a BSD occur when I was re-installing MWB (I had returned my laptop to factory settings at the end of June - what fun!) made me research MWB and I came across some forum discussions of exclusion settings being necessary to allow MWB to run happily with other security ware. As to what's running at the time, you have me. I have been keeping a log haphazardly since buying the Dv7 but more rigotrously since 29th June this year. I've been obliged with numerous BSDs but I need the leisure to go through my log and see what was going on around them. Cheers and thanks again ausgumbie
Thanks Chris and Maurice I'll check out the heating situation first as it sounds the easiest. You mentioned a STOP code Maurice. Where do I find that? Cheers ausgumbie