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Happychappy wrote: »Thanks DV
I have been so cheesed off with this issue I was looking at either changing the Pc or getting a128 or 256 SSD drive, but not really confident enough to replace the existing drive or install the SSD drive and have them both in place, the SSD to boot and the existing HDD to save, all backed up with the external drives ? as we speak it is working its socks off again
I can understand your frustration.
You can be confident in running two HDD, its very simple.
And as you said, I have 256SSD (Samsung) for booting and all the programs. And 2TB HDD for data and storage. Running Windows 7 on Intel i7 QuadeCore - 16GB RAM, and trust me it only take few seconds to boot up.
I only see glimpse of flying colored windows when booting and booom desktop. All taskbar icon/programs loaded.
If you can, go ahead with the SSD installation.
They are now fairly cheap. Even 128GB is more than enough to run Windows and programs.
If you need help, I can help you in installation and migration etc.
Or there are loads of videos on YouTube with step by step guide.
Also clean install is what is needed in the current situation. 100%.
Try it and see it.
PS: I haven't installed any anti-virus since 2011 and only running Microsoft Security Essentials. That is it. And no virus or spy.
Also I only use Firefox.
So use only MSE it's really good.0 -
I can understand your frustration.
You can be confident in running two HDD, its very simple.
And as you said, I have 256SSD (Samsung) for booting and all the programs. And 2TB HDD for data and storage. Running Windows 7 on Intel i7 QuadeCore - 16GB RAM, and trust me it only take few seconds to boot up.
I only see glimpse of flying colored windows when booting and booom desktop. All taskbar icon/programs loaded.
If you can, go ahead with the SSD installation.
They are now fairly cheap. Even 128GB is more than enough to run Windows and programs.
If you need help, I can help you in installation and migration etc.
Or there are loads of videos on YouTube with step by step guide.
Also clean install is what is needed in the current situation. 100%.
Try it and see it.
PS: I haven't installed any anti-virus since 2011 and only running Microsoft Security Essentials. That is it. And no virus or spy.
Also I only use Firefox.
So use only MSE it's really good.
^^ +1 to that .. I only use MSE as I find ALL the free ones to be resource hogs and are regularly taking a good chunk of CPU ..
And same here .. NEVER had a virus ..
MSE and a bit of common sense is all you need
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You are unlikely to find the answer on a forum, and won't get anywhere doing scans, cleans, and defrags, the more you load the worse it will get, so why not re-install or use your backup as suggested in the thread from a week or two ago?
If mse missed 10% of infections, would people still be saying it was so good?
If you really want to go around in circles for weeks trying to find the cause of a 12 minute boot, start by removing the two external drives, and time a safe mode boot. Where do the photo's get backed up?Don't you dare criticise what you cannot understand0 -
Try cleaning the fan that sits over the CPU with a dry paintbrush. Could be a overheating issue0
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Also if the heatsink blocks fins are clogged with dust and fluff , remove the fan and give them a brush. Don't remove the heatsink unless you have some heatsink compound. This has to be renewed each time the heatsink is fitted over the CPU as it has to be there to dissipate the heat from the processor0
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Happychappy wrote: »Strider
Looking at the Processes, the largest use of 75112k is Opera, there are 12 open Opera.exe running, other than that Outlook is 43000k Avast is next at 6443k Nothing seems excessive but the CPU use is showing 92% and 1.8gb of the 2gb, I only have browser windows open and Outlook inbox
There is something wrong if you have opera open with one tab and there's that many instances showing in task manager... I suggest installing Opera v12.16 for use on W7, it's stable and doesn't tend to leak memory. Export your bookmarks to a file on your desktop, uninstall the version you're using and install 12.16:-
http://filehippo.com/download_opera/15472/
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Originally Posted by grumpycrab
I agree with Fightsback find out exactly what's going on at startup.
We have a few Vista clients - no major problems if fully patched but the main culprits :-
- turn off search indexing
- turn off auto disk fragmentation
- turn off auto windows defender running
Any of these could be grinding the disk down.
EDIT: and check you only have 1 antivirus software running
there's a couple of things I'd add to this:-
1. manually set your pagefile to 4096MB
2. check you don't have acronis set for incremental backups, as it may be trying to do this after every boot
3. check avast isn't set to do a boot-time scan every time - avast is very light on system resources, so shouldn't be an issue with it unless it's boot-time scanning
......Gettin' There, Wherever There is......
I have a dodgy "i" key, so ignore spelling errors due to "i" issues, ...I blame Apple0 -
I'd go with clean reinstall, but first run a bootup scan with your av, it may pick up a hidden nasty. It'll take a couple of hours.“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx0 -
Thanks to all for your great advice, I am slowly going through this, in the meantime I have ordered the San Disk 240gb SSD which hopefully will arrive in the next couple of days, I then went to find out how to boot from this and leave my initial drive in place and my external 2TB Seagate drive which Acronis backs up to.
I have the original discs for Windows 7 Premium, I don't have the disc for Microsoft Office 2010, I bought this directly from Microsoft through my work home program, so have the emails for purchase etc
I have an old copy of Rosetta Stone and a couple of charting programs which I downloaded directly but that was possibly 6 to 10 years ago, I don't have the original discs but know they were on the old hard drive which somehow I transferred when I updated my computer to the current Inspiron, so therefore I'm really loathed to do a clean install in case I lose these programs and cant reload them without great expense.
Everything is loaded onto Acronis true image but i'm really not sure if I clean installed will everything work just like it did ? I have registered for the new Windows 10.0 -
grumpycrab wrote: »I agree with Fightsback find out exactly what's going on at startup.
We have a few Vista clients - no major problems if fully patched but the main culprits :-
- turn off search indexing
- turn off auto disk fragmentation
- turn off auto windows defender running
Any of these could be grinding the disk down.
EDIT: and check you only have 1 antivirus software running
Hi, I have turned off all you recommend and also ran the TN Auto runs program, nothing found which I wasn't aware of, I know my start up is down to a minimal, but a really interesting program to see what opens and when, I shall certainly keep an eye on this.0 -
Fightsback wrote: »Use autoruns to see what else you have starting up.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
Thanks Fightsback I have run the TN Auto Runs, a really interesting program, fortunately nothing which appeared suspicious, and it showed everything on log on which I thought was there, I run msconfig and do a regular un-checking of things which keep attaching themselves. The autoruns really does show everything associated with opening a program, thanks again0
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