Windows 10: Constant Crashing at irregular intervals

I have built a number of PC's and my latest PC crashes at irregular intervals. I have tested the memory and have a new power supply. This was occurring in Windows 7 and is still happening after upgrading to Windows 10.

It happens at irregular times and does seem to be heat based.

Windows 10 gives me a blue screen message about closing down and I have checked the event logs with out success. Any advice on how to track the issue would be greatly appreciated.

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Notepad Window Opens At Irregular Intervals (about every 10 minutes)

If you downloaded the Win 10 Anniversary Update a couple of days ago, you must be using Windows 10 ... and should have asked your question in the Windows 10 section rather than in the Windows 7 section. I'll move it for you.

Don't delete desktop.ini, at least not yet. Your problem (Notepad popping up every 10 minutes) does not seem to be the same as that of the original poster (Notepad opening at Windows start). Does Notepad pop up when Windows starts AND about every 10 minutes
thereafter?

For a description of Desktop.ini, see
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001060.htm

What are you using for antivirus and antimalware programs?

Is the contents of the Notepad the same (as near as you can tell) each time it pops up?

Take a screenshot of as much of the Notepad window that fits on your screen and include that in your next Reply. See

http://www.howtogeek.com/226280/how-to-take-screenshots-in-windows-10/ After you've saved the screenshot as a file, click the "Insert Picture" icon in the toolbar of the Reply window, browse to the location of the file you saved, click "Open" and then
click "Upload."

 

Notepad Window Opens At Irregular Intervals (about every 10 minutes)

<Split from a thread in Windows 7 | Performance & System Failures>

I have a similar issue, The notepad pops up at irregular intervals and has a file on it that says it is a "metadata" file. It is about a page long. I have deleted that popup numerous times, but periodically - maybe more like every 10 minutes - it pops
up again. it is quite annoying. This started before I downloaded the Win 10 Anniversary Update a couple of days ago ---there - it just popped up again. I use Windows Defender as my primary protection. Is this a factor? Should I use this
or something else, or defender AND something else. Let's see - I seem to be asking more than one question...sorry about that.

Can I attach a copy of the file or do you need that at all? Should I use the same solution - i.e. delete desktop.ini? What does desktop.ini do, anyway? If I delete it, what other functions will be lost?

Thanks.

 

Hi - I will run these and add the results.

After I posted last night I added RealTemp and logged the CPU temperature.

I have noticed the CPU heating up to between 90 - 100 degrees C on a relatively light load.

I have added some of the results while I collect the rest.

DATE TIME MHz CPU_0 CPU_1 CPU_2 CPU_3 LOAD% 10/13/15 11:58:30 840 64 62 63 63 5.7 10/13/15 11:58:45 820 65 63 63 62 5.8 10/13/15 11:59:00 880 65 63 63 62 7.1 10/13/15 11:59:15 1670 66 65 64 64 7.5 10/13/15 11:59:30 900 63 62 62 63 6.2 10/13/15 11:59:45 960 63 63 61 61 5.8 10/13/15 12:00:00 2769.99 69 66 72 73 17 10/13/15 12:00:15 3109.99 96 96 100 96 19.5 10/13/15 12:00:30 1790 97 99 97 98 27.9 10/13/15 12:00:45 1410 98 100 98 97 58.4 10/13/15 12:01:00 1000 100 99 96 98 36.6 10/13/15 12:01:15 900 99 99 98 99 45.5 10/13/15 12:01:30 840 99 99 96 100 34.6 10/13/15 12:01:45 830 99 99 98 99 29 10/13/15 12:02:00 800 99 98 97 99 20.6 10/13/15 12:02:15 1040 100 99 97 99 19.2 10/13/15 12:02:30 1000 100 98 97 97 29.4 10/13/15 12:02:45 800 99 99 98 99 33.7 10/13/15 12:03:00 800 100 100 97 99 28 10/13/15 12:03:15 800 100 100 100 100 28 10/13/15 12:03:30 800 100 100 100 100 27.9 10/13/15 12:03:45 800 100 100 100 100 28 10/13/15 12:04:00 800 100 100 100 100 27.9 10/13/15 12:04:15 800 100 100 100 100 27.9 10/13/15 12:04:30 800 100 100 100 100 27.7 10/13/15 12:04:45 800 100 100 100 100 27.8 10/13/15 12:05:00 800 100 100 100 100 27.9 10/13/15 12:05:15 800 100 100 100 100 27.9 10/13/15 12:05:45 800 100 100 100 100 28 10/13/15 12:06:00 800 100 100 100 100 28

 

Please clean your components of dust and replace the thermal paste before you run the tests.