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by rwells9263

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Whenvever I am on the internet and go back and click on My Computer or anything else for that matter I get a reboot,this has been going on long before the Blaster worm ever got out. Microsofts reporting errors says its the C:Windows\Minidump\Mini052003-01.dmp, also C:Documen~Raymon~\LOCALS~1\TEMP\WER4.TMP.dir00\sysdata.XML...I have shut off error reporting thinking that might solve it to no avail.I would like to know how to solve this problem. Went to dump file chk but dont really understand how to use it....Thanks in advance.....RWells9263@aol.com

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by w2ktechman

It sounds like your internet browser is affecting your offline activities. Try downloading the newest version of the browser, and then patch it if there are any patches www.windowsupdate.com
Your system is set to automatically reboot after a dump, it may or may not flash a blue screen before rebooting. If reinstalling the browser des not help, try setting your system to not automatically reboot. You can do this by right clicking "my computer", selecting properties, go to the advanced tab, and "startup and recovery" button. Uncheck Automatically restart

Then you will get the blue screen error (like 0xc0000005) or something and usually the file which caused the dump at the end like IExplore.exe or ntoskrnl. Then it will give you a new direction of the problem, is it windows or an app running in the background.
Also if you have your taskbar on autohide, this may be causing the problem. Or you are just running out of memory.
Finally defrag your disk. And check that you have plenty of disk space for your page file.
Your page file should be around 1.5 times the memory installed in your system.

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