Just Windows or Corrupt Memory?

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Even since I upgraded to Win 7 64-bit my system has had this weird fault were Windows will slowly break down until it freezes/blank screens completely or forces itself to restart. It always starts with one program not responding (almost always whatever I'm using at the time) and then one by one other programs exhibit the same behavior and eventually explorer itself stops responding. Attempting to open a program that hasn't been before isn't possible and nothing happens. Task manager itself won't open. It's completely random and can happen a few times a week to only once every few or more months.

I don't know if this is a Win 7 thing as it didn't happen before on XP, not once, but that was 32-bit so now I'm using the full 8GB of RAM the system has so it could now be addressing part of it that's faulty. The RAM isn't over-clocked as the last time I attempted it didn't work so well and data was getting corrupted.
 
Sorry for late reply. I ran memtest86 via a bootdisk (don't think I can name it) and it didn't find anything. I've checked the BIOS to make sure I haven't left anything from when I did overclock the CPU and RAM. This computer is quite old now so I'll probably just forget about as it hasn't happened much lately anyway.
 
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