UGH.. Blue screen of death! strikes

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#1 Trimage
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So, my my dad transferred Audacity through a USB onto my computer. After this I started randomly getting the "Blue screen of death". I did a system restore, and it's still popping up. I just recently deleted Audacity, no BSOD since then, but it's only been 20 mins. Also my computer is fully updated. If this occurs again, would doing a full system restore fix the issue?
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#2 Limp_Laky
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Can you restore to before the program was put on your computer? if it bluescreens again do that if you can before you do anything else.

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#3 Tim_Millington
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Yeah a full restore could do the trick. A restore only reverts the system settings and the registry back to the date, all your data will not be touched in the restore.

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#4 swehunt
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As audacity is a freeware/shareware it was perhaps taken from a bad site.

Audacity is a great freeware and should ONLY be downloaded from it official site @ sourceforge.net and nowhere else.

This is the case with most freeware/shareware as the sourcecode often is open folks can rewrite them to their own purpose. (can contain malware in rare cases.)

Theres a v1.3 Beta version Beta versions can be unstable, if this was your version you migth want to do the v1.2 instead witch is a stable.

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#5 desertpython
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You could download Microsoft's debugging tools and analyze the .dmp file with !analyze -v, but then it could be one of those random things which mean nothing.