Slow Windows Box

[Michael]

sorry to hear about your room.

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 12:01 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Keith,
>
> Sorry for the late response, but have been in between living arrangements
> since a fire took out my room at home (you may have seen it on the news on
> 27 June).
>
> There should be some system maintenance tools that will allow you to clear
> out old cruft files in the system folders, temporary internet files
> folders, etc. Not sure if MS kept them when they moved on Fromm Win7.
>
> I am rather surprised you don’t install a basic linux bistro on your
> wife’s box, and then install VMware and have that run windows. About all
> you would need would be a lightweight DM for linux, a minimal installation
> with some dev tools and the VMWare package itself.
>
> Some caveats if you do go this route, Windows 10 and 11 require easily 50
> GB of disk space for the full installation and will want access to at least
> 16GB of ram. I am seriously considering this for my older win7 installation
> on my old dell laptop (which has developed a bad case of Alzheimers due to
> the RTC clock on the motherboard going south). My only difficulty right now
> is finding an affordable used laptop for cheap that has 32GB of ram or
> more, a 500GB HDD (rust or SSD) and a late generation intel CPU (core i5
> 10th or core i7 11th).
>
> Anyway, check into the windows accessories/system maintenance tool menus
> to see what’s there. There are also some open source free tools on the web
> that can help clean up the system registry, get rid of junk files and even
> properly defrag the drive (mydefrag is an excellent product I use in place
> of the built-in version that MS offers).
>
> Also, you might consider creating an antivirus rescue disk (linux based,
> of which avast has several versions) and boot from that to do a full scan
> of her drive. There might be a rogue binary or 2 operating in there and
> that can significantly impact performance. Then again, this is windows, the
> worlds largest security hole.
>
> Anyway, hope this helps.
>
> -Eric
> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Fire Reclamation Dept
> (currently at a new location for the duration).
>
>
> > On Jul 7, 2023, at 2:29 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is mostly off topic given this is a Linux List.
> >
> > I have two separate work areas in my house.  I have my home office which
> is doing well.  I am using my Linux Ubuntu desktop to send this email.  My
> Linux machine is hardwired.  This is my main box.  I also have a Win 10 Pro
> laptop that I use to make and edit YouTube videos.  My editing software
> only works on Win and MAC.  This laptop is connected via WIFI.  No
> Problems.  The O/S loads reasonably fast.  My video editing software loads
> reasonably fast and the rendering process takes a bit but not too bad.
> This is a 6 year old HP - nothing fancy and it works.
> >
> > My wife's office in another spare bedroom and she has a Dell mini-tower
> Win 10 ... I want to say pro as well.
> >
> > Here is where I need help. My wife's dell is very slow and has trouble
> with loading Firefox and it takes a while to load YouTube videos.  Even
> windows takes a while to load which make me think it is a local problem
> (the Dell box).
> >
> > I am reaching out because I do not know how to troubleshoot this issue.
> >
> > Any help much appreciated.
> >
> > Keith
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