Great Discussion - Help Please
Would it be possible to redo this post updated with our most valuable sugegstions. I agree that it is in the wrong order, as I like to cleanup before I defrag etc.
I also agree - was it in this post? - that I should charge my neighbours for assistance, But in the past I have referred them to Dave next door who is retired and has the time. Now that I am nearly retired I am willing to help but on my terms. With the lady up the road whose machine is not running, but sort of crawling, I am creating a list of things to investigate and what order to do them. It looks like this at the moment.
my first five steps would be to:
pre 1. Check the size of the disks and how full they are. Use Task manager to get a feel for memory usage.
1. remove excess programs via the control panel program.
2. Clean up the desktop of folders and excess garbage.
3. run ccleaner
4. using something I found in my investigations,
- rename ntbtlog.txt to .old
- F8 on bootup and enable boot logging in options.
- reboot, then look at new ntbtlog.txt to see what occurs.
What else would you suggest?
