I'm a BIG fan of this forum's top-notch thread on the POS hack for keeping XP updated through the 24th century. But, just the last week, my trusty old Dell Optiplex 755 XP machine (4GB RAM) is getting CRANKY. A few BSODs.
Various sweeps by Avast and MalwareBytes and last August's MRT don't show anything. So I ran sfc /scannow, but I saw in Event Viewer that it couldn't check or replace a whole bunch of files. So I re-ran sfc /scannow after setting msconfig to diagnostic mode. Twice. Then, when I returned msconfig to its typical combination of Selective Startup - Process SYSTEM.INI files + Process WIN.INI files + Use Original BOOT.INI, I had more problems.
So I am now rebooting with msconfig set to "Normal Startup - load all device drivers and services and run the dishwasher."
After a few reboots, I am really getting bored. But I also ran a Boot Log reboot, and its list of drivers loaded is much longer than I remember. Here it is (or look nearby - I uploaded it). glnz's latest XP reboot ntbtlog 10-27-16.txt
What do you think? What drivers (.SYS files) should I turn off, and how do I do that anyway?
PLEASE NOTE that my list of Services has stayed fairly slim. The numerous services that I changed to Disable or Manual over the years have stayed that way. (Thanks again to trusty old CodeStuff Starter.) This is not a Services issue, as far as I can tell. However, I'm a real estate lawyer, not a techy, so what do I know?
NOTE - Since last year, my hard drive has been a Seagate Momentus XT hybrid HD-SSD that we bought for a different computer in 2013 ±. I think it's getting a bit skittish, and it might be a source of the BSODs. However, it passes the Seagate SeaTools for Windows tests. The Momentus XT is model no. ST95005620AS (500GB).
What do you think about my ntbtlog.txt file?