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OK, look at what programs and extra drivers are loaded, if any, in Startup.
Also look and see are there any services that shouldn't be running. The registry has several startup sections. I used to use this to find stuff that was breaking windows, not just malware. I only got one false positive, which turned out to be a Dell Keyboard driver that could be replaced. https://www.silentrunners.org/ You may need to download renaming it as text and then rename back to vbs to run. Better than most AV. Good news it's not a HW fault, so totally solvable. |
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Fortunately I no longer do IT support. I might even lie and tell people I know nothing about Linux / Unix / Windows. |
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I'll give a try to Silent Runners to see if their script could give me some more info. |
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I'm sure I used Sysinternals utilities long ago. Gave up Windows in Jan 2017.
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I would download and burn a Linux Live-CD (or thumbdrive) and boot from that rather than Windows on your SSD. Try your Kindle when booted into Linux this way (there is no installation, so nothing is changed on your HDD/SSD). If your computer is new enough to be able to boot from a USB3 thumbdrive, that will be much faster than booting from a CD (actually a DVD these days).
Even before booting into Linux, you can run "memtest86" from the boot menu to test your RAM (many different options for memtest are available, and testing can run from a few minutes to many hours depending on how thoroughly you chose to test). Here's a good Linux distro to do your testing with, should you decide to pursue this path (it's also a good distro to explore Linux with): https://mxlinux.org/ At the very least, you should be able to determine if you're dealing with a software or a hardware issue. Basic answer is, "If both Linux and Windows don't work with your Kindle, it's likely your issue is hardware (or your Kindle itself, or the cable you're using to connect your Kindle). If Linux works but Windows doesn't, it's most likely a software problem in Windows (typically a driver, or the Windows OS itself)." |
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I've used MX on an old laptop, but I think Mint + Mate is more likely to run. I do keep both on USB sticks and even USB 2.0 boot is faster than win10 boot! Anyway, apparently it's a "Win10 slightly borked" issue and not the HW, according to an earlier post. |
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I just finished testing the Kindle with a Linux Live-USB drive and there was no problem, as expected after the successful connection of my Kindle on Windows Safe Boot.
I tried using the Silent Runners script, but it didn't find anything suspect. I'll keep trying to look for the bad driver or software using Sysinternals' Autoruns which has a lot of facilities to deal with the registry. Thank you all for your help. |
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Maybe install a spare disk with same version windows? |
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To be more specific sysinternals was written by Mark Russinovitch et al, and the tools were so good that Microsoft hired its authors to keep working on them (a decade or more after the tools were first written). They were very much not "written by Microsoft", though a lot of MS employees always used them! It's probably reasonable to say they are *maintained* by Microsoft.
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I turned off every program in the Auto run list in System Configuration and it didn't help, I still got the same bsod.
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Another possible solution is to delete the USB driver and then plug in the Kindle and let the computer reinstall the driver. |
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