Computer Problem?

[pwdrive]

Did the free Malwarebytes, two PUP's quarantined, no increase in PC speed.

Clicked the button for free defraggler download, after a bit a box came up...options were save or cancel (no run) a screen came up...thank you for downloading defraggler blah, blah, blah etc , no options given.

I left that screen on the computer for 10 mins, still nothing and no progress bar/whirlygig or anything so what's to do?

Lawrence.

Ok...Icon has popped up in the task bar, doing checking for drive errors right now.

Will report in a bit.

Lawrence.

[pwdrive]

The drive check has finished, it said no problems.

Used: 52.6 Gb
Free: 163.3 Gb
Capacity: 215.9 Gb.

Will try thePiriform ccleaner next.

Lawrence.

[tiv48]

have you tried ms config as I suggested earlier?
Rob T

[pwdrive]

Done the ccleaner, not a lot of difference.

Now doing defrag, the status on the defrag says:

Defragmenting (1%)

Remaining time: > 1 day.

Lawrence.

[pwdrive]

have you tried ms config  as I suggested earlier?
Rob T

No, not yet Rob but I will after the defrag has finished, it seems to be taking ages.

Lawrence.

[pwdrive]

Cancelled defrag 'cos it said it will take more than 1 day to complete (what's that all about, it's taken over 1/2 hour to do 1%)

Rob.....Tried msconfig, still the same.

I'm wondering if it's an MS update problem, every time we get them everything seems to get ****** up.

Will have another fiddle tomorrow, if no go then into the crunchotron it goes.

Lawrence.

[Nick]

If the defrag said that it was going to take a day, then your disk is in a bad way -not mechanically, but the file structure is in a very poor state and desperately needs defragging.

Do the defrag - let it run overnight. Nothing to lose and potentially a lot to gain - a badly fragmented disk will cripple performance on any system.

[pwdrive]

Yep...1 day (more than) is wot it said, is that because the disk is in a bad way or the whatever it is that's causing everything to run slow.

Eg: the mouse she is using is about 1 month old, you can click and click and click and zilch happens, but keep at it and eventually an action will result, anyways I decided to try the mouse off my pc on hers (the netbook) it took 10 minutes to load up the driver.

The nearest analogy I can give is that say a 100 Mhz clock has suddenly gone down to 10 Khz clock (or slower), it's happened all of a sudden the other day.

Have been on the MS "fix it" download, it took ages and then said no problem found.

I'll try the dfrag again and let it run but the mains power to the PC will be switched off when I hit the sack, it will auto run on internal battery from then on but not sure how long for, I'll be in the land of ZZZZZ by then so I won't care, I'll see what that brings.

Thanks to all and suggestions so far.

My PC is working ok, just the wife's that's a problem.

Lawrence.

[Refugee]

"I'll try the dfrag again and let it run but the mains power to the PC will be switched off when I hit the sack, it will auto run on internal battery from then on but not sure how long for, I'll be in the land of ZZZZZ by then so I won't care, I'll see what that brings."

If it stops it could loose all your data or a large part of it.
The quickest solution is to back up all the data to another hard drive and run a disk partitioning utility and install another disk operating system if windows was not supplied with the computer in a form that allows you to install to a new disk.
Getting used to Linux takes a couple of months but with all the trouble windows is causing these days the time taken doing this will pay you back in 6 months to 1 year due to improved reliability.

[Skywave]

Based on my experience of Defrag and various MS operating systems . . .

If you've started to run defrag and it says it will take hours and hours and hours, you MUST let it take all the time it requires - without any power interruptions or any other form of interruption. The reason why it is saying that it will take so long is simply because it has been a very long time since defrag was last run. I usually run defrag about 3 times a week. The fact that your HDD hasn't been defragged for simply ages is a major contributor to the lack of speed in that PC.

You have no alternative but to run defrag and let it take as long as it wants. Period.

Al. / Feb. 2. '15 //