"Harry Bloomfield"; "Esq." wrote in
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John Rumm used his keyboard to write :
On 04/03/2020 11:51, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
John Rumm wrote :
unless its got a disc full of crap.

At that age the drive may well be ailing. It will have been slow even
when new.

I am told it hasn't had much use since new. It was crawling to the point
of logging in, but I have managed to sort that out using a rebuild from
the hidden partition. Unfortunately it didn't do a restore to factory
and left the following rubbish in place and loading.

It loads various things when booting, including Premier Systems, Winzip
Driver and Webdiscover - grinding to almost an halt in the process. It
becomes so slow, it is impossible to use control panel to be able remove
them.

I seem unable to do a safe boot, or maybe I don't know how...

Which OS did it restore to? If 10, then there are number of ways going to
safe mode:

https://www.ccleaner.com/news/blog/h...s-in-safe-mode

It was Win10, but as described below - I have resolved it now, via
accessing safe mode. I'm not sure its a legitimate copy of Win10 though,
because it says 'activation required' in the bottom right hand corner.

Not all that bothered, but it still has a peculiar issue..

If set to hibernate, instead of sleep - it seems to go through the
hibernation process when the power button is pressed, but when coming out
of hibernation the screen remains black. It flashes up a photo, then black
again. It never gets to the login screen. Sleep, shut down and reboot all
work fine.

That may well be one of the issues that Lenovo warns about suggesting
you should use their Win10 distribution, not the standard one.