Roger that. Thanks. Where is my best place to start - say, power supply?
I have to admit I'm a penny pincer and buy refurbs. Ten years and this is the first one I've ever had a problem with. So I'm wondering what might...
Thanks. I've read the article and hope to have a plan in place when I get back to work in town on Monday. I have to confess that I really like...
Whoops! My apologies - I put this in the wrong place. @Admin. can you move this please? Thanks.
Okay. So I bought an open box computer at a big box retailer. It came with W10 Home which I did not see as a problem. The setup went fine until I...
For an update, I ran SeaTools and couldn't figure out how to get the report. Then the power supply croaked. When I push the power button it...
SpywareDr, here is the snapshot as requested: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/kyDtjvfYv4u7rlDQoj6fDxA Re, retired learner: all updates are done.
Well ... after a re-installation of the OS I thought I had this thing squared away but I evidently deceived myself. After more than a week of...
Update: the unit seems to be improving daily. It still takes a while to boot up and some functions still pause before working, but I can see it...
Yes, I’m sure it is still indexing things so it can find itself. I knew this computer when it was a new Windows 7 pro unit and it was much quicker...
Thanks. I'm posting this note from it and am starting through the drivers update process. At the moment it seems like it has to pause and think...
Alright, I've reinstalled the operating system and am back up and running. Assuming it runs overnight with no glitches I'll start putting data and...
Thanks. I’m off tomorrow and Saturday so hopefully I can knock it out. It may be after the weekend but I’ll be back later to post an update.
Roger that. I understand. Will I find steps at the link for scooping off the data that may be hidden in directories I can find at a dos prompt?...
Thanks. I tried that last evening and it would not. It boots into two sequences. First, I get the blue screen that tells me it is collecting...
Okay. I ran all those and made screen shots on my phone. What kind of report would you like?
Thanks! The first line ran successfully. The second line did not run successfully. When I ran the command ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old the message...
As in, I went through days of tedium doing a malware cleanup on an old desktop, then I started the the steps to optimize the thing as found in the...
Thanks as always for the assistance! The old thing is acting better. It is not really fast by today's standards but I'm thinking it will suffice...
Okay. Sophos finished overnight and did not show any threats. The message said "your computer is clean."
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