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"He's retiring in May so these issues wil be somebody else's problem (his outfit is finding out a lot of things about what all he does and is scrambling to reassign the various duties, LOL)."

It is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo satisfying to have that happen! How wonderful it is that RJ gets to witness it first hand. I've had to be content with former co-workers telling me, "The yearly 'X' report is due soon. The big boss was NOT happy to find out that you always handled it so nobody has any idea how to do it."
 
 
There's a squabble currently happening about who is going to handle one of the tasks.  Only RJ and his dept head understand the details ... and the uppity head surely won't do it.  RJ said "such-and-such can probably learn."  Head snapped "such-and-such won't have time for that."

About which RJ said (to me) I handled that plus everything else I did but such-and-such can't.  I spent 44 years making sure it was kept in order, now it's going to be a big mess.

I said yup, that's what happens, don't let it be your problem.
 
I have an older HP Pavillion G7 laptop running Windows 7 that has diagnostic software installed for new Stihl products thats really slowed down. I'm also going to be downloading Husqvarna diagnostic software now as well. I've been weary about converting this to Windows 10 for fear it wont handle it and cause all sorts of trouble. Maybe I should just buy a new laptop lol.
 
#15

"Spybot Search and Destroy ....."

I seem to remember using that years ago and being happy with the results.

#21

I'd try a few things before investing in a new laptop.
1. Defrag (defragment) your disc. That tends to speed everything up.
2. Use SpyBot Search and Destroy with Should I Remove It? Delete or move to a hard copy anything you don't need.
3. Check your start-up operations. Make sure you don't have rarely used things (ex. PhotoShop) starting up and idling in the background waiting for you to use them. Most programs can be set to stay off (and not use processing power) until you actually open them.
4. Max out your memory (RAM) if you haven't already. You didn't say which G7 you have but I Ducked a few of them and they all showed 8GB as the max. Maxing out your RAM gives the greatest bang for the buck in terms of hardware improvement. Swapping out memory is embarrassingly easy and takes about 2 minutes once you have the laptop open. Just make sure you back everything up before you start.

Doing the above has always sped up my computer, regardless of what software I'm using. I'm sure some other guys here will have some other suggestions. Let me know if you have any questions.

Jim
 
 
I use both Spybot and Malwarebytes (free versions).  I don't recall that they've ever found anything of concern on my systems.

Firefox 85.0 was released today.  No longer supports Adobe Flash (I uninstalled Flash a couple months ago), although the Frigidaire unimatic animation on the front page still works so apparently FF includes code to interpret Flash (or Robert has already revised it).  Also has added defense against "supercookie" trackers which are said to persist even after otherwise manually clearing cookies.
 
Have a try at Linux.

I use Solus at present, it is very intuitive for someone coming over from the dark side. (windows.)

It does have a couple of  small clunky issues on my computer so I will probably go back to Linux Mint soon.

You can install many versions of Linux onto a USB drive and then boot from the USB, so you haven't messed with your windows install. That is a good way to play with Linux and get a feel for it.

I am currently using Solus off a 32Gb USB stick, the computer was my Dad's tiny desktop with Windows 10, I have kept it Windows at present "just in case" but I do everything on Linux so when I get round to it, I will probably wipe Windows and install Linux Mint on the computer's SSD hard drive.

I occasionally use my partner's Windows 10 computer - I don't know how anyone puts up with it.

there are a bazillion flavours of Linux, I would start with one of the most popular. You can read about most of them on distrowatch website.

the different flavours of Linux are called distributions, or "Distros." Hence Distrowatch, a place you can find out and access each distro.

https://distrowatch.com/
 
Chris Gizmo,

Yes, my experience with my Linux debian operated scale nueteral 32 bit multi protocol model railroad controller so far has been good. It's evermore updatable, and comes via the web.
Being a Unix based open platform software, it's very popular. It even displays the penguin logo when starting. The all touch 8 inch screen icons are many, and variable. It can design and store track plans, manage route control and automated operatiom of trains, turnouts, signals an accessory decoders. 320 possible digital adresses are possible. I has feedback decoder capability also.
While connected to internet or wifi, wireless computer, phone, or tablet operation is possible. It supports two additional d.i.n. pin control devices, and also others via an s88 adapter expansion port. It has two usb ports for a mouse, etc., and a third for phone or tablet charging.
It has diagnostics built in, as well as user fault prompts. It can also log and send system errors to the manufacturer.
One newer reason the hobby is called the worlds greatest. Will take me years to learn all it can do. I may utilize just a portion.
A man in Switzerland is building an ho scale complete route BLS railway (original, not with new Alps base tunnels), and says he will never totally finish all the scenery, etc.
 
I ran another CHKDSK /f /r operation. Just to be on the safe side.

Nothing untoward, and all is tickety-boo. No errors.

I read somewhere that file corruption on the disk can be generally caused by 'dirty shutdowns'... Such as deliberately powering off whilst the machine is doing something in the background, like installing updates.
 
Reply #10

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">If you download the the "Reason" program in this post you will be billed $27.95. This charge appeared on my PayPal account although I never entered any PayPal information or authorized it. Very strange since my PayPal password is very complex. Ii's not worth the trouble to dispute this since PayPal only offers assistance on eBay transactions, however I did close the account. The "Reason" program found nothing that my Norton protection didn't already take care of. Dumb me...</span>
 
Please Ignore the Link in #10!!!

#29

IIRC, there was a paid version that gave all sorts of detailed info but I only downloaded the free version that basically gave you a list of what was on your computer and the public description provided by the company that wrote the software in question.

I never paid for it and the fact that they charged you without telling you now makes them a automatic no go for me.

Can the link be taken down?

Sorry about that. I had no idea.
 
just making it clear...

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">The $28 charge on my account is entirely my fault, not Jim's (warmsecondrinse). I'm sure if I had looked more closely I would have seen that there would be a charge. I have a bad habit of pushing buttons without reading. I deleted the program. Had I known it was not free I would have saved it. </span>
 

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