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@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> My wife's office in another spare bedroom and she has a Dell mini-tower Win 10 ... I want to say pro as well.
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> 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).
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> I am reaching out because I do not know how to troubleshoot this issue.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Keith
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