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Is my hard drive dying? [Solved]
Boggin:
--- Quote from: jraju on March 02, 2015, 03:35:21 am ---Hi,
Thanks boggins. Did jmk apply the commands for his system. I do not know..
Please see my post, I have already included . I specifically mentioned to enter then after each line. Only think i missed was , where it would take that, the directory in your post. So everything is clear.
I am asking jmk because, the ultimate problem is dying hard disk problem reported by him.
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While that is the title of the thread, it was just a suspicion that a failing HDD was the cause of performance problems - as you will see from the chkdsk /r report that JMK posted, the HDD is fine.
jmk909er:
Hey Boggin, I ran the decrapifier last night and it suggested to remove a few things a couple of then was Toshiba Reel Time, Toshiba Face Recognition and a couple more. I uninstalled then with IObit, after the uninstall IObit suggested 100's of items in the registry to delete and they didn't look like they were all related to the items I uninstalled. I didn't delete them, should I have? It was a lot of scary stuff.
I just did a restore to undue what I did last night
Boggin:
--- Quote from: jmk909er on March 02, 2015, 06:53:05 am ---Hey Boggin, I ran the decrapifier last night and it suggested to remove a few things a couple of then was Toshiba Reel Time, Toshiba Face Recognition and a couple more. I uninstalled then with IObit, after the uninstall IObit suggested 100's of items in the registry to delete and they didn't look like they were all related to the items I uninstalled. I didn't delete them, should I have? It was a lot of scary stuff.
I just did a restore to undue what I did last night
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They probably are related to it but you do the right thing by creating a restore point prior to making any changes, but when you select a restore point, click on Scan for affected programs as some have to be reinstalled to become functional again.
I remember when I've used IOBit to remove Java 64bit it found over 700 items relating to it.
To refresh my memory about Toshiba ReelTime, I Googled it and got http://www.shouldiremoveit.com/TOSHIBA-ReelTime-5312-program.aspx
There's a link lower down the page which lists what it calls other Toshiba bloatware.
I've run Decrapifier on both my Toshiba Win 7 laptops and while this slightly older one doesn't have Face Recognition, it didn't snag Toshiba ReelTime on either or Face Reconition on the other although it listed it in Everything else - do you have either of those programs running - msconfig should show that.
I can't see ReelTime in my msconfig - probably because I unchecked it ages ago, but it may be in yours.
If you do have it listed in msconfig and you want to uninstall it, then leave its box checked otherwise you could end up with orphaned files, regardless of IOBit.
Have you used Toshiba Media Creator to make a set of Toshiba Recovery Disks - these are a copy of what is in the Recovery partition and should you need to factory reset or have serious problems, you can boot up with them.
It requires two DVDs.
I've only had to use mine once when in the Advanced Boot options I noticed I no longer had the option of Repair your Computer.
If you ever need to check if there are any driver updates for your machine then just Google Toshiba driver support.
You'll probably get a different location to my UK one and when you are entering your model details it will ask for the short model number which will be on the underside of the laptop, but you'll recognize which bit you need from the dropdown choice.
jmk909er:
Hey Boggin, my computer is running great, I just booted up to the desktop in 46 seconds! WoHoo!
I ran the CCleaner as you recommended and I think it did a lot of good. Do you recommend that I leave CCleaner installed and working all the time? I notice that it is in the startup menu as well as running in the task bar but maybe that's a good thing?
Leave it or uninstall it?
Boggin:
--- Quote from: jmk909er on March 02, 2015, 07:18:11 pm ---Hey Boggin, my computer is running great, I just booted up to the desktop in 46 seconds! WoHoo!
I ran the CCleaner as you recommended and I think it did a lot of good. Do you recommend that I leave CCleaner installed and working all the time? I notice that it is in the startup menu as well as running in the task bar but maybe that's a good thing?
Leave it or uninstall it?
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The free version is usually used as an on demand program and I run it to clear the cache at the end of every session.
If you click on Tools/Settings have a look to see if the box is checked for it to run on Startup - it doesn't need to be - running it manually is sufficient.
My laptop has never booted up that quickly even when new :smiley:
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