Computing Tips

 Question : When I do a full scan of my system for viruses about half way through i get the blue screen of death saying there is a problem and that windows will now be shutting down.  The error says  "STOP 0×000000050

Answer : The error "STOP 0×000000050 is a very general blue screen of death error message.  In my experience this is more likely being caused by some sort of hardware driver.  Have you installed any new hardware drivers in your system recently or have upgraded any driver versions??  If yes remove or downgrade the driver.  If no try going through every single driver and load a later version if possible.

If the above fails run chkdsk to check your hard-drives health, Open mycomputer and right click on your hard-drive and select properties then click on the check now button to check your systems hard-drive.  Now select both tick boxes and click start,  the chkdsk will now run on the next reboot.