On 03/03/2020 21:49, Chris Bartram wrote:
On 03/03/2020 19:29, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Chris Bartram formulated the question :
On 03/03/2020 17:55, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have asked to look at the above, which sort of runs, but in
treacle mode. Takes forever to boot up, press a button and it will
maybe respond 5 minutes later.

It has Win10 installed on it, it seems to have a reasonable spec.
I'm wondering if there should be a recovery CD for it, or if anyone
knows where I could download from and burn a CD?
Just download an ISO of win 10. I'd expect a machine of that vintage
to work without many extra drivers.

https://www.microsoft.com/eb-gb/soft...load/windows10

It'll still be slow though. How much RAM?

It seems to be reporting 4gb
Don't bother. It'll struggle. Slow processor, not enough RAM, probably a
5400rpm spinning rust drive.


Unfortunately I cannot find the web page I used to disable a lot of
Win10 eye candy features.

It did include deleting some of the pre-installed MS programs (or apps
as they like to call them now) Things like their news app which has an
animated icon and in reality is constantly trying to download news from
the internet in the background. There are few more apps like this which
may not be required.

There is a lot of graphic features that can be disabled in favour of
performance, especially on an older machine

It may also be worth running a cleaner/optimisation program such as
CCleaner (free trial)
https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download

Is there more than one real time virus checker running? If so they may
be fighting each other in that they are both constantly checking any
files each of the other checker may be creating. Win 10 comes with an
inbuilt virus checker but PC manufacturers are fond of bundeling another.
A second virus check could be put into manual mode and removed from the
startup list to see if it improves Win 10 performance.






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