Well from the source which i use it gives me this:
"These are generally hardware issues (which often means driver issues). The articles given below are provided more as examples of the types of situations that trigger this error, rather than concrete solutions. As a rule, be sure you have the latest Service Pack edition of your Windows operating system and are using the best device drivers and software versions. After that, do normal hardware troubleshooting for the device implicated."
have you installed any new hardware recently into your computer, such as graphics cards, hard-drives, USB devices etc. ?
If so check that you have the latest drivers for all the hardware you have. I don't know the process through Vista, but it may be similar to XP, where you go into Control Panel and look for System and then inside system there should be a tab called Hardware, then click onto Device Manager. This is the XP route to find what is needed to be found, in Vista it may be slightly different. Once you have found Device Manager double click onto each of the devices, and click onto the "Driver" tab, then click onto the "Update Driver" button. It will then tell you if you have the most up to date driver for that piece of Hardware.
I hope that helps!
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Have you installed any new hardware recently?
Such as a Printer, a USB device and the like?
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Do you have the printer connected through a USB cable or through a wireless router (if you have a wireless network)?
Does the BSOD always appear when you have the printer plugged in? If yes then try the computer without the printer plugged in and see if it still BSOD's then the problem may be with the drivers to the printer. To try and avert the problem uninstall the drivers for the printer, reboot the computer and reinstall them.
Otherwise this could be due to a virus/spyware attack. What Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware do you run?
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I would run an AVG scan and the Ad-Aware scan just in case something has got through. You could try a hijack this log. That would certainly find the root of the problem. I myself don't understand them but i can get someone to come over and have a look over it.
I believe that this is the most up-to-date version to my knowledge:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5554.html
Download it run it, post the log here, and i shall get someone to have a look over it for ya.
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oh my that is quite alot of programs runnig when you startt he pc, what exactly are you doing when the BSOD happen, browse, games,word processor, do you have windows defender running on the PC? does this PC have a pci video card or onboard? how many stick of memory does it have?
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you might be having a conflick with windows defender and avg, uninstall/disable one and see what happen, also i would try and shutdown some of those startup programs, you have way too much starting up with windows, and most not needed.
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yes it can, it is recommended that you dont run both at the same time especially if they are going to start with windows. uninstall one and see what happens
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