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PC hangs for about 2 to 3 minutes and comes back. Everytime it hangs I get the following System Event: "The Windows Error Reporting Service service entered the running state". And when the system runs again it gives the same message but says "The Windows Error Reporting Service service entered the stopped state". Sometimes I also get this in addition: "The Application Experience service entered the running state". This error happens every 15 to 30 minutes when I browse the web and is not repeatable. Chrome and IE work fine and don't cause hangs. This error happened with FF 3.6 and now also with 4.0. PC has 8GB DDR3 RAM, AMD X2, HD5850 GPU. I have reinstalled FF from scratch with all profiles removed and it still does the same. Also have restarted FF in safe mode with all add-ons and extensions disabled. During hang, I can still move the mouse, and switch some windows, but opening windows happens very slowly with long waits with the blue circle. CPU is not running high and I'm unable to manually terminate the Firefox process. Full system info attached.

Hi,
I think you have to install other drivers (3 of them) too.
Regards,
BH
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