Everyone,
Success!!! The boot time is from >5 mins down to 45 secs to get the desktop and 1:45 to open Word from there. (this is a three year old HP AMD 1.69 GHz 1 Gig RAM laptop) I think the boot time is not bad for those specs.
Anyway, I got hold of the recovery disc. Did not want to...
Everyone,
I have received the recovery discs! The owner found them. I am about to try the Windows repair and if that does not work just wipe this sucker clean and re-install. (already copied Docs and Settings off).
And linney, I had found out HP has that but this laptop had been...
HDD is not near that large. I am not by it now but it is a home use HP about three years old so it must be under 250 and likely 80 Gigs or so.
Hopefully it is just fixing tons of bad sectors and when I get home tonight a reboot will take less than 5 minutes. Not sure what I will try if this...
Thanks for the response,
I do have the UBCD so I will try that when I get home. I actually forgot I even had it. I left it running so it can finish chkdsk (don't want to hard shut that off).
I will try the things you mentioned and see what happens. (That is if chkdsk EVER finishes! lol)...
Everyone,
I have this laptop, no install discs, which I was given to troubleshoot b/c of a long boot time (>5 mins). I have: uninstalled symantec and handfuls of other programs, deleted all temp files, temp internet files, cookies, prefetch cache, checked for viruses and spyware using AVG and...
I currently pull data from the db into an excel sheet and do some analysis there to determine our vendors performance in delivering our product to us on time. What has been requested is to give them a 3 day buffer on the required date in my analysis but not changing data in the db. I had the...
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