We are done! 37 pints in the bag! Oh, my it's yummy!

I'll take your word for it! I'm not a huge applesauce fan. I like it. I eat it once in a great while. Sometimes the texture bothers me.

I am having a little trouble following the link you posted. If I can't figure it out I'll post back. Pictures or not, I just don't understand this stuff.

Edit 1 - Okay, I did the check disk on both drives through the file explorer and no errors were found. Do I still need to do it that other way?

Edit 2 - Well, even though doing check disk through file explorer says it doesn't correct any errors and it said none were found, my computer didn't do much gurgling tonight after the check disk while I played my Nonograms game. Coincidence ? It is a little earlier in the night than some other nights when I'm playing, if that means anything.

It wouldn't hurt to do it the other way, but that's good news about just doing it through Explorer. I would let it ride and if you hear the sound and it crashes again, it won't hurt to do the deep check disk. Something is definitely amiss with your hard drive.

The applesauce from the grocery store is horrid. I can see why you wouldn't be a big fan. We use really good fresh picked apples and only cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg in it - no sugar. Along with the marinara and chili sauce I canned this summer, we will eat well this winter!

Ran a full Norton scan (just for Orion) - no problems there. One thing I've noticed since I disabled Fast Start Up is that my Norton doesn't seem to be doing it's Smart Scan anymore when I turn my computer on. It used to, and all the settings still seem to be right. It shows Auto Scan is on and Auto Protect and all that stuff.

I didn't figure you had any malware problems. That's just not what it's acting like. But at least it's done! Don't use Norton, so not sure why the doesn't do the Smart Scan at startup. Seems like it would be the other way around!

Tonight the BSOD showed Net.iosys at the bottom which it has shown before and one of the reasons I said that I think it is a network problem. I guess my network adapter is Intel (R) Ethernet Connection (7) I219-V. If I try to update drivers in Device Manager it tells me that "Windows has determined that the best driver for this device is already installed". I looked in the past for drivers for this but didn't find anything and/or didn't know what I was looking at or for or what to do with it. In looking again tonight I still don't see anything helpful.

So, I guess I figured out how to do that chkdsk/f and did it. I don't know if it did anything. I thought it was going to take some time and I walked away from my computer for about 30 seconds. When I came back it was apparently finished already. Would that help anyway if it has to do with my network adapter?

And then, after I had already restarted the computer and the chkdsk had run there was a Windows notification to restart my computer to run it so I did it again and it did only take about 1 second. It showed 100%.