Lightroom conflicting with Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010

Question

This is a third posting on what is the same topic/experience.
See postings under ROBBIECRAFT:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/947181?tstart=60
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4137324#4137324
Hal and Beat were very helpful at that time.
Quick background and current situtation (after some 5 plus weeks)
- Shortly after ver 3.6 was released, Lightroom 3.6 began crashing while in the DEVELOP module after 30 minutes plus or minus.
By ``Crashing``, I mean the computer shuts down, no blue screen, and reboots to screen recommending START WINDOWS NORMALLY
- Computer is 6 months old, Computer shop replaced, in sequence with my testing,
          Video Card
          Memory
          CPU
- crashing continued, so they installed a temporay new C drive to see what would happen.
- With LR only running, all was fine so Win 7 (home premium) was re-installed on my C drive and I stared re-installing the software.
With each installation LR was tested twice for 60-90 minutes, before proceeding to next software install
RESTORE POINT created after FIREFOX ``ìnstalled``
- Lightroom 3.0 installed
     tests run
- Lightroom 3.6 installed
     tests run
RESTORE POINT created
- Photoshop CS5 installed
     tests run
RESTORE POINT created
- MS Office installed, some issues with setting up OUTLOOK
- drive permissions fixed
     tests run and LR crashed
-Uninstalled Office
- crashes continued (much quicker)
- worked back through RESTORE POINTS and eventually ended up at inital RESTORE POINT
Then worked back through the installs again (and restore points)
- No crashes until I installed MS Office.
- I have backed up to the RESTORE POINT before Office install and still crashing.
At this point I am ready to set up Lightoom in a Virtual machine within the computer and run everything else normally. (not sure I said that correctly, but that was what I thought my technical assistant said)
But before doing that, has anyone else had this problem and solved it ???
Thank you
Jim Robertson

Answer 1

Set up Speed fan (not sure I did it right as you will see below)
Ran Prime95, crashed within 3-4 seconds
Went to Speedfan log, the most recent one and imported the csv into Google Docs spread sheet. I thought it looked strange, so I doubel checked it ona another compouter runnign excel.
Here is the screen print:
Here is how I had set up Speedfan: (I went with the default as I didn't know what I was really looking at)
The subitems for each box was not checked:
Here is screen print of SPEEDFAN initial screen