Link: Nope, I get nada from Windows. It doesn't say if I recovered from a critical error, and I don't get an error box upon error happening. I've already tried that method closing processes, but still got the same thing. What's also peculiar is, when I use another user profile that's barely used, some things that don't work on my profile work, but the heavy-loading stuff still don't load.

CPU cooling issue? I don't know, I somehow doubt it, but maybe I'll try seeing about that. Thanks. (I remember seeing a lockup issue with a friend's old PentiumII without a CPU cooling fan, and it locked up just the same...I think)