I'm about to uninstall FF to see if it will resolve a persistent shutdown error I'm getting. At one stage, every time I shut my laptop down, it would begin to go through the motions and then flash up a blue error screen before instantly rebooting.
However, instead of just rebooting to Windows, it gives a blue screen with an error message about inconsistencies with the HDD and that it's advisable to run a repair. This can take anything from 5-10 minutes while all the files and folders are truncated. Every file and/or folder listed is related to FF, and toward the end of the list, it stops truncating/moving the files as it's run out of memory (I've only got 1Gb RAM).
I found that by setting FF to clear all history, cache and cookies whenever I close it down, it stopped the error from occuring for several weeks - however, it's become persistent again even when clearing everything before closing. It's really pissing me off now.
Whenever this error occurs and the repair is carried out, FF appears to revert back to a fresh install - all bookmarks deleted, no history details and when the browser is opened, I'm greeted by the 'Welcome to FF' page rather than my homepage.
I rarely use the laptop without running FF, so I'm not sure if it's just FF causing this problem, or whether it's a fault with my HDD. I'm going to unistall FF and just run IE (which I hate!) for a while and see if the problem is resolved.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone, or any ideas what could be causing it? Any help or suggestions would be great.
If the problem stops after unistalling, I'll try a fresh install and see if it happens again.
If I unistall FF using add/remove programs, would I need to delete anything from the registry key, or is that done automatically?
