Haven't downloaded TFC yet but installed a few of those apps. Kept iTunes for now.
It's still taking 15+ mins to boot. After rebooting a few times yesterday and today I got a blue screen that said something about there was an error detected and it had to shut down my PC. When my PC finally rebooted I got the message below. After selecting ok it went away and eventually rebooted.
You mean uninstall right? I asked you to remove not install them.
1.) Can you please test your hard drive for errors? Either using disk check (do step 1 through 4, then 8) or the manufacturers utility?
2.) Also test your ram with windows memory check. Click startthen type memory, choose the top result-windows memory diagnostic. Then click restart now.
3.)Also, was it a BSOD you got? Sounds like it.
Please follow the directions here and post the log here.
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Posting Instructions
yes unistalled those apps
ran TFC
Yes it was a BSOD. Looked up examples of it on Google images and that is the error I rec'd a few times when restarting.
Did the disk check but it wouldn't run since pc was running so it was scheduled at restart. ran the memory test and the pc restarted.
I assume it did both on restart? Some scan was running.
Yup it will do both. Event viewer will have the details on it which will be collected when you run through the posting instructions.
and wow, tfc cleaned a lot.
What next?
question - step 1 of option 2 is to configure windows to create a dump file at BSOD. when you go to those instructions there are multipe options/settings - kernel dump, complete dump, small dump, no dump.
which one?
No problem. Do complete dump.
in that tut for configuring windows to record a dump. do step 1-4 then jump to 8. :)
I would do the grab all first. It seems to state that a complete dump might possibly overwrite the bsod already recorded.
SFD
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