I have a laptop (hp elitebook 6930p) that has some kind of unspecified (probably overheating/faulty memory) problem that i think related to the graphics card that causes BSODs/crashes (often without leaving a memory dump behind).
The graphic card model (as reported in device manager) is
Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
I think it may be integrated in cpu :(
As the guarantee expired a long time ago i was looking into a way to actually use it for web surfing\youtube without crashes.
The installed OS are Windows 10 (Technical Preview) and Windows XP in a Dual boot configuration.
Windows XP has not yet crashed (probably because the UI does not use the graphics card acceleration, and because I did never run any program that uses the graphics card acceleration), while Windows 10 crashes unexpectedly.
I want to ditch Windows XP (because of internet exposition), but in order to do so I have to make Windows 10 stable/usable.
So I would like to force software rendering on Windows 7+ operating systems.
But, even if I could force that setting for the explorer UI, I am unsure of what would happen with other applications like Chrome/Firefox (I read they are accelerated) and plugins like flash player(about it i really have no idea). For example (on win10) VLC takes a lot more time to crash the system than using the default video player.
I think I have to force it system-wide because of the above concerns.
Right now I am using the Porteus linux distribution booting from SD card and even youtube works. It is a good compromise between security and functionality. But I am mostly a windows guy.