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[Colif]

I have to use Gigabyte command center to control RGB now. There is no stand alone version of RGB Fusion like there used to be.
So I noticed tonight there was a new version. And a few other drivers I want...
SO I agreed to download them all and it said, I need to do a restart of GCC to install updates. I agree
It restarts and the 1st thing it starts to install is Norton Internet Security - a program I don't want at all.
So I unticked the download, didn't stop it.
I closed GCC and also closed its icon on Notifications area.

Restart App, its not installing anything. Untick Norton and a few other things, and install the rest.

I am not looking forward to updating it next month if its going to try to install crap I don't want. I didn't mind the other updates.

Gigabyte apps always included Norton but it was easier to avoid in the past.

 

[Zed Clampet]

in the past when I was bored I would run defrag and watch it fix my drives... not anymore, nvme don't really need you to run it, they can look after themselves.
Another thing I used to do was run an Anti Virus scan... that only takes 7 minutes to do the system now. I can recall running Bitdefender on my I6 4690k and it taking 2 hours to do it all.

What am I supposed to do now when I am bored?
Currently downloading some of my Steam games and a few Xbox ones I might look at one day.

Here you go:

Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator

A simulator of the classic Microsoft Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter tool. Relive the nostalgia of defragmenting different disk drives!

defrag98.com

Or

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPv1gQ5Rs8A&t=26s&ab_channel=FifoF
.

 

[Colif]

Does it restart everytime you use PC, like the old ones did?
seems not.. I don't miss that effect.

If I really want to run it, I could on my old PC except there is nothing on its hdd so test won't run long

 

[Colif]

Since most people think Defender is all you need, these might help.

 

[Colif]

TIL I had fast startup on... which is totally a waste of time on a PC with an nvme. It only really helps on PC with hdd.

I only noticed as I wanted to add hibernate to my start menu... maybe fast startup being on explains why my hiber.sys file was so big.
Biggest file on C is page file, 32gb... but that should shrink itself.

 

[Colif]

I might have to reinstall windows.
I noticed that my EFI partition needs a repair... figuring out how is fun.
From doing this before I ran a few steps:

• startup repair - it never works and actually showed me a message I didn't want to see. it mentioned "srtTrail.txt" and from memory the easiest way to fix it is a clean install... I will try options first. Most people who get that can't even start windows... I am trying to avoid that.
• chkdsk C: /f /r - didn't find anything but last step took 5 hours to run on my 2tb nvme
• SFC /scannow - didn't find anything
• Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth - didn't help either. This is DISM btw

Only one other fix I haven't tried and from memory it rarely works. bootrec

Redirecting

link is Microsoft. Blame Xenforo for relabelling it.

edit: Could be a false positive, as if I look in settings/system/storage/Advanced storage settings/Disks and Volumes, it shows it needs to be repaired but if I look in Disk Management it shows all partitions as healthy. Since they can't agree I am going to ignore it.

 

[Colif]

srtTrail.txt

after looking up name on Google, I know why I saw it when I did. Its the log file for the Start-up Repair process.
Its not a problem by itself, its significance comes when its an error at start-up, not as the result of running start-up repair yourself - I expect it just shows it there so you can look at in logs if you want to.

Knowing the file name without knowing what it meant was the problem. I had never stopped and wondered what initials mean. I just knew they were trouble to see in a boot message.

 

[Colif]

McAfee and Norton only survive now as they have weaselled themselves onto Pre-built PC builds or Motherboard Driver installer applications.
Neither should be used as Anti Virus

 

[Colif]

I guess it started in November but every time I open Task Manager it randomly highlights a header

And I have asked Microsoft about it twice now

1. Once on my old PC when it first started; and
2. Once on my new PC when it happened again.

I think its the AMD drivers as it doesn't show up on Nvidia or Intel HD graphics powered PC afaik (the one person I asked hadn't seen it on his laptop but I was asking about his 7900xt PC)
That and only thing the same in both PC was my GPU. Or GPU drivers, OR windows itself.

I was going to ask AMD tonight as I couldn't find anyone with same problem until I found this thread on Microsoft forums

So since they broke it in 24H2, I need to wait and see if they fix it in 25H2

wonders why he hasn't replaced it with process explorer yet.... doh

it can be set to replace task manager. I can ignore the bug and get more accurate info